Four Faces of the Moon: Amanda Strong

Creative Access Description

A strawberry-red catalogue cover in portrait orientation with the title “FOUR FACES OF THE MOON” written in the centre all in uppercase, in a black gothic serif font with solid O’s. The name of the artist “AMANDA STRONG” is printed in a very small black gothic serif font under the title, also in uppercase.

Four Faces of the Moon is a catalogue of an exhibition held at grunt gallery from July 22 to August 20, 2016. The Four Faces of the Moon exhibition was a multi-media installation that provided a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the elaborate sets, puppets, and props created for the stop motion animated film by the same name. The film explores the reclamation of language and Nationhood, and peels back the layers of Canada’s colonial history. A personal story told through the eyes of director and writer Amanda Strong, as she connects the oral and written history of her family as well as the history of the Michif (Métis), Cree and Anishinaabe people and their cultural ties to the buffalo. Canada’s extermination agenda of the buffalo isn’t recorded as fervently as it was in the United States, yet the same tactics were used north of the border to control the original inhabitants of the land. The film seeks to uncover some of that history and establish the importance of cultural practice, resistance and language revival from a personal perspective.

grunt gallery

Identifier

2016.0722 FOU D001

Extent

80 pages : illustrations ; hardcover 24 cm

ISBN

9780993713095

Edition

Edition of 400

Place of Publication

Vancouver, BC

Publication Type

Print

Contributor

Glenn Alteen, Kristin Dowell, Dylan Miner