I first met Québécois filmmaker Guillaume Vallée in Percé, Quebec, at Les Percéides: La Grande Rencontre des Arts Médiatiques. At the festival, Vallée presented Le bulbe tragique, 2016, a film which was awarded Best Canadian Work at the 2016 WNDX Festival of Moving Image, and performed Promenade Éphémère, an expanded cinema collaboration with filmmaker Charles-André Coderre and musician Charles Barabé.
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The exploitation of Indigenous culture has a long and fraught history in Canada and abroad. The donning of headdresses by hipsters at music festivals and the appropriation of Indigenous patterns in luxury fashion lines, like Canadian designers DSquared2’s “Dsquaw” collection, indicates that the commodification and misappropriation of Indigenous belongings continues to occur in contemporary Canada.
