About the Films

Musqueam Through Time offers an overview of Musqueam history, traditions and contemporary community. The film was created for Musqueam Indian Band by Gryphon Productions.

In Writing the Land, Larry Grant discusses his journey toward speaking hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ that began again in 1998 with his enrolment in the First Nations Languages Program at UBC. Directed by Kevin Lee Burton, Writing the Land was produced by the National Film Board.

Weaving the Path documents artist Debra Sparrow’s series Blanketing the City, which has been a part of the Vancouver Mural Festival since 2018. The film explores the life of Sparrow, who is part of a group of weavers reviving Coast Salish weaving and its meaning in Coast Salish communities. Weaving the Path was directed by Cristóbal Ruiz and produced by Olli Dickerson, with Jan Shädle as the Director of Photography.

Reconciliation Pole: Bronze Disc Base details the collaboration between Richard Campbell (Musqueam), 7idansuu James Hart (Haida) and Max Chickite (Lekwiltok), who have been working to create a monumental bronze disc for the base of Hart’s Reconciliation Pole, which was raised on the UBC campus in 2017. The film was produced by the UBC Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory. Artist Richard Campbell will give a special artist talk at the Museum of Anthropology on Thursday, 23 June 2022 at 4 pm.

In c̓əsnaʔəm: the city before the city, director Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers tells the story of the Musqueam First Nation’s 200-day vigil to halt a Vancouver condo development that unearthed ancestral remains. c̓əsnaʔəm: the city before the city was directed and produced by Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers in partnership and collaboration with the Musqueam First Nation and the c̓əsnaʔəm: the city before the city curatorial team.