It’s an unconventional trailer for a film, but then again Alanis Obomsawin is not necessarily a conventional filmmaker.   The trailer below for her film entitled Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance is about the Mohawk protest against the expansion of a golf course into sacred burial lands and given that key piece of information I think the trailer is actually quite beautiful:

In case you aren’t familiar with Obomsawin check out her impressive bio after the jump.

Alanis Obomsawin is one of Canada’s most distinguished documentary filmmakers. A member of the Abenaki Nation, whose territory originally extended from New England to Quebec, Obamsawin was born in New Hampshire in 1932 and raised on the Odanak reservation northeast of Montreal. Deeply absorbed in the history, traditional stories, and songs of her ancestors, she began her career as a singer, writer, and storyteller. In 1971 she made her first film, Christmas at Moose Factory, a documentary about Cree children. Since then, she has worked with the National Film Board of Canada to make over thirty documentaries on issues affecting First Nations peoples.

You can learn more about Obosawin HERE.

I found the trailer (and that paragraph) in a very exciting place - MOMA (Museum of Modern Art) apparently has a youtube channel and has been uploading awesome videos for quite some time!!

So takepart to watch more awesome MOMA vids and also be sure to takepart again to learn more about Obomsawin’s film and the struggle of the Mohawks.

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