Weaving shots of historical and contemporary Métis beadwork with intricate flashes of prairie landscape and native plants, this film explores relationship to the land through a place-based tactile knowledge. Featuring beadwork from Lor Brand and Jennine Krauchi this knowledge is shared throughout the film.
Michif Land-Based Knowledge
- Robyn Adams
- Canada
- 2024
- 3 mins
- Fri Jan 24
- 2:15 PM
- Market Hall
- Virtual / Hybrid Available
A short film highlighting Indigenous beadwork, prairie landscapes and relationship to the land.
- English
- No Captions
- Art and Culture, Indigenous Rights
About the Filmmaker
- Filmmaker: Robyn Adams
- Writer: Robyn Adams
- Producer: Robyn Adams
Robyn Adams is a Red River Métis citizen of the Manitoba Métis Federation. Her Métis family is from la Rochelle and St. Pierre-Jolys, Manitoba. She is a multidisciplinary artist in which she interrogates relationship with family, land and water through the intricate weaving of Indigenous histories, knowledge, ceremony, art and architecture.
Robyn enjoys fishing, medicine picking, beadwork, and making things with her hands and seeks to create an architecture of poetic joy, alongside the matriarchs that have helped steward a sense of home for Indigenous communities through the dark times so that we may be able to forge paths into brighter futures.