Suckerfish
Type
Audio/Visual
Authors
Category
Audio Visual and Multimedia Materials
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Publication Year
2004
Publisher
National Film Board of Canada, Canada
Duration
8 min 01 s
Subject
Indigenous women -- Canada -- Social conditions
Tags
Mothers and daughters, Ontario -- Toronto, Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Ethnic identity, Indigenous peoples -- Ontario -- Toronto, Indigenous women -- Canada -- Social conditions, Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Social conditions, Indigenous women -- Social conditions, Indigenous peoples -- Social conditions, Indigenous women, Ontario, Documentary films
Abstract
"When she was around 8, Lisa Jackson began to suspect that she was part Native. Then her mother told her that their Indian name was Nahmabin, or Suckerfish. When she was 10, Lisa fled Toronto to live with relatives in Vancouver to escape her mother's depression, alcoholism and prescription drug abuse - legacies of the residential school experience. Twenty years later, as she sifts through memories and letters from her mom, Lisa constructs a portrait of a woman whose drive to love her daughter triumphed over her demons of addiction. Animation, childhood photographs, stylized recreations and the young child's whimsical voice add to this moving, at times humorous, look at the director's relationship to her mother and Native identity."--Case.
Description
1 videodisc : sound, color.
Number of Copies
1
