Скачать или смотреть Hebrides International Film Festival 2021 - Charles Wilkinson interviewed by Peter Urpeth

Director Charles Wilkinson returns to Hebrides International Film Festival this year with the first UK screenings of his latest film, Haida Modern.

Haida Modern explores how the artist Robert Davidson brought Haida culture back to its people.

In the 50 years since he carved out his first totem pole, and saw it raised on Haida Gwaii, Robert Davidson has come to be regarded as one of the world’s foremost modern artists. And yet, in the insightful interviews captured in the film, he retains a remarkably soft-spoken manner and a charming humility that belies what an influential figure he’s become in both the realms of art and activism. In listening to his sage words and admiring his sublime handiwork, we come to understand how widespread appreciation of his art has stoked interest in the 14,000-year-old culture that spawned it and motivated non-Indigenous Canadians to support First Nations activists intent on defending their heritage and the land they hold sacred.