Poster of I Want to Know Why

I Want to Know Why

Plot: The videomaker investigates the women in her family who have succumbed prematurely to external forces of racism and poverty. Using repetition and manipulation of western images of First Nations culture with an at first timid, then demanding voice-over, the video moves through sorrow and indignation with the processes of cultural genocide
Release Date: Saturday, January 1 1993
31 years ago
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Portrait of Dana ClaxtonDana Claxton
Dana Claxton was
35 in I Want to Know Why
as 'Director'
Thu, Jan 01 1959