Returning

About the Film

Stories of spacecanoes and dancing forth dimensional space/time travel unravel to "Trade Song" by the Métis Fiddler Quartet in the experimental stop motion Returning.

Great Lakes connection:

The waters featured in the animation are the Great Lakes.

Cast & Crew:

Director: Elizabeth LaPensée
Animator: Elizabeth LaPensée

Director Bio:

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.

Screenings/Awards:

Festival Ciné Alter'Natif
Paris, France
October 7, 2016
European Premiere

Indigenous Film & Arts Festival
Denver, Colorado, United States
October 5, 2016

Montréal First Peoples Festival
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
August 2, 2016
Best Animation

LA SKINS FEST
Los Angeles, California, United States
November 15, 2015
American Premiere

imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
October 14, 2015
North American Premiere

Asinabka Film & Media Arts Festival
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
August 10, 2016