Animation, United States, 2016, 4 min, Color
The experimental stop motion animation Hands to the Sky follows the fallout from oil extraction around the Tar Sands and Great Lakes in North America and transforms into healing through an Anishinaabe worldview.
The waters featured in the animation are the Great Lakes.
Director: Elizabeth LaPensée
Animator: Elizabeth LaPensée
Elizabeth LaPensée, Ph.D. is an award-winning writer, designer, and artist of games, comics, transmedia, and animation. She is Anishinaabe, Métis, and Irish, living near the Great Lakes as an Assistant Professor of Media & Information and Writing, Rhetoric & American Cultures at Michigan State University.
imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
October 10, 2016
International Premiere
to the Shorts program Native American Voices
Sunday, September 17, 1:00pm
Soo Theatre
In the Native American Voices shorts program
Not rated
Animation
2016
4 min
Country of Origin: United States
Color
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