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qIFF: So Surreal Behind The Masks
March 9, 2025 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
So Surreal: Behind the Masks, co-directed by Joanne Robertson
Neil Diamond is a Cree filmmaker, who made a huge impact with Reel Injun, a documentary about the negative “Indian” stereotypes that so permeate Western society that even the filmmaker as a child wanted to be a cowboy, not himself, when playing with friends. Reel Injun won three Gemini Awards including for best director and went on to win a Peabody Award. His new film So Surreal: Behind the Masks, co-directed by Joanne Robertson, explores the strange but intense relationship between Surrealism and the masks of the Yup’ik ‘and Kwakwaka’wakw nations and how that commingling came to pass. It’s about cultural appropriation, art and dream imagery.
