Alanis Obomsawin was one of the guest speakers in Emily talk series. She gave her presentation on March 27th at 7: 00pm in the south building at the lecture room. She is a Canadian filmmaker of Abenaki parentage and was born in New Hampshire and primarily raised in Quebec. She has produced and directed many National Film Board of Canada documentaries on First Nations culture and history. Her best know documentary is Kanehsatake: 270 Years of resistance which is about the 1990 siege at Oka crisis. Obomsawin plays many roles in her career, not only she is a Canadian filmmaker but also she is a singer, songwriter, and storyteller. She has toured Canada, the United States and Europe performing in universities, museums, prisons and art centers as well as at folk art festivals and for humanitarian causes. Yet, she is more into filmmaking after she wrote and self-directed with “Christmas at Moose Factory” in 1967. Since then, she has made over 30 documentaries on issues affecting Aboriginal people in Canada. Her latest film work is the 2007 National Film Board of Canada documentary “Gene Boy Came Home” was showed during the lecture. In this film, Obomsawin turns her camera on the ugliness of war through the eyes of one survivor, a Vietnam War veteran whose name is Eugene Benedict from her home community of Odanak which refer as “Gene Boy.” The film includes Eugene’s experiences and feeling when he was at the war, and also his fears and nightmares after the sequela from the war. Obosawin’s camera also brought people to see the disaster that the war brought to the Vietnam and the people who were involved to it. Many people have lost their lives, and children have lost their body parts which are very disturbing to watch. I was striking by a group of little children who lost their body parts and together in a room learning how to read and write. I was shocking by the image because I have ever felt that the war is very truculent. Especially for children under five years old, at a young stage, they already lost the chances to be normal like everyone else because of the war. Obosawin told us that children do not call others by name instead by numbers. It shows how the war has effect on people’s daily lives and behaviors. Thus from this film I have reconsidered about today’s issue about the United States is in a war with Afghanistan. It has always been shown an imagery of United States is the savior to those poor or undeveloped countries. They import force, agriculture, manpower, and finance to help countries that they think it’s needed. To be honest, I found some of the countries are not very democracy and they need to have more human rights or woman rights. Yet, I was discouraged to use force to solve the problem. The instance of United States attacking Afghanistan that I found the United States is the outsider tries to take over the indigenous land. Today we look at the Afghanistan, many people have lost and sacrificed their lives to aim for better living, but ironically the people who live in Afghanistan aren’t live in better live!
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