Vancouver director Charles Wilkinson’s latest documentary, Haida Modern – a portrait of legendary Haida artist Robert Davidson – will have its broadcast premiere on British Columbia’s public broadcaster, Knowledge Network, at 9 p.m. on Tuesday, June 2.
The film tells the life story of Davidson, one of the foremost Indigenous artists and cultural activists on the continent. His call to revisit the wisdom of his 14,000-year-old culture is especially timely given the global pandemic – a crisis related to our lack of respect for the natural world and its creatures.
Haida Modern won the Most Popular Canadian Documentary Award at the Vancouver International Film Festival last fall and was selected as the best Canadian film at the 2020 Festival International du Film sur l'Art in Montreal.
The film includes fellow artists, art historians, politicians, rock stars and family members who describe the impact of Robert’s work, beginning with the carving of his first totem pole in 1969, the first raised in Haida Gwaii in a century. This gesture is widely credited with sparking the revival of coastal Indigenous culture.
It will be available on Knowledge Network by streaming after June 2.
For information, go to www.knowledge.ca/program/haida-modern.
Source: Knowledge Network