Yuxweluptun: Man of Masks (1998)
• January 1st, 1998 • 0h 21min
Documentary
Overview
This short documentary serves as a portrait of Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, one of Canada's most important painters. We meet him at the Bisley Rifle Range in Surrey, England, where he's literally shooting the Indian Act in a performance piece called "An Indian Shooting the Indian Act." It's in protest of the ongoing effects of the Act's legislation on Indigenous people. We then follow him back to Canada, for interviews with the artist and a closer look at his work.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Mundurukuyü – The Forest of the Fish Women
Released on: 2025-04-03
Documentary
Using the camera as a weapon to defend their ancestral land in Brazil, three women of the Daje Kapap...
Un été à la Garoupe
Released on: 2020-11-28
Documentary
La Garoupe, a beach in Antibes, in 1937. For one summer, the painter and photographer Man Ray films ...
Daidō Moriyama: Stray Dog of Tokyo
Released on: 2001-09-29
Documentary
A documentary that follows the life of photographer Daido Moriyama in the present, which has never b...
Sweetheart Dancers
Released on: 2019-02-23
Documentary
Sean and Adrian, a Two-Spirit couple, are determined to rewrite the rules of Native American culture...
John Singer Sargent: Fashion and Swagger
Released on: 2024-04-16
Documentary
Filmed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Tate Britain, London, the exhibition reveals Sarge...
Jane by Charlotte
Released on: 2022-01-12
Documentary
Charlotte Gainsbourg looks at her mother Jane Birkin in a way she never did, overcoming a sense of r...
Fluisteraars
Released on: 2024-04-14
Documentary
Destroying your own artwork. For many artists it is unmentionable, but Loes Heebink from Kolderveen ...
Invasion
Released on: 2019-11-01
Documentary
In this era of "reconciliation", Indigenous land is still being taken at gunpoint. INVASION is a new...
DEVO
Released on: 2024-01-21
Documentary, Music
Originally formed amidst the chaos of the 1970 Kent State anti-Vietnam War protest killings, the not...
Our Dear Sisters
Released on: 1975-01-01
Documentary
Alanis Obomsawin, a North American Indian who earns her living by singing and making films, is the m...
Ketwajê
Released on: 2023-11-24
Documentary
The Mentuwajê Guardians of Culture (a group of young Krahô filmmakers) invite the Beture Collective ...
Nuuca
Released on: 2018-07-02
Documentary
In this evocative meditation, a disturbing link is made between the resource extraction industries’ ...
Drawing the Line: A Portrait of Keith Haring
Released on: 1989-11-01
Documentary
Short documentary about artist Keith Haring, detailing his involvement in the New York City graffiti...
Keep Talking
Released on: 2017-03-16
Documentary
Three Alaska Native women work to save their endangered language, Kodiak Alutiiq, and ensure the fut...
Constable: A Country Rebel
Released on: 2014-09-07
Documentary
The Haywain by John Constable is such a comfortingly familiar image of rural Britain that it is diff...
Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde
Released on: 1997-04-09
Documentary
Man Ray, the master of experimental and fashion photography was also a painter, a filmmaker, a poet,...
Call Me Iguana Garcia
Released on: 2019-09-11
Documentary
A documentary about Iguana Garcia, a Lisbon musician, where we get to know João, the man behind the ...
Balkan Erotic Epic - Single Channel Version
Released on: 2005-01-01
History, Documentary
The film explores the sexual aspects of Serbian folklore. Ancient myths that have trickled into ever...
Create or Die
Released on: 2024-01-30
Documentary
In an industry that is becoming increasingly competitive, what drives indie filmmakers to keep creat...