Editor
This all-Native production, by director Shelley Niro (Mohawk), is part of the Smoke Signals new wave of films that examine Native identity in the 1990’s.
Editor
Alex is busy trying to make a film involving tattoos. She hires the androgynous Chris, who has a troubled past. Her assistant, Montana, breaks off their lesbian relationship after Montana warns Alex that Chris has a fixation on her.
Assistant Editor
Tras echar a su infiel novio de casa, Alison Jones, una ejecutiva de Nueva York, pone un anuncio en el periódico, buscando a alguien para compartir piso. Hedra Carlson, tímida y poco atractiva, pero muy inteligente, responde al anuncio. Pronto se crea una relación especial entre ellas y se hacen inseparables. Sin embargo, la dependencia de Hedra respecto a Alison va convirtiéndose en algo enfermizo; así, cuando ésta se reconcilia con su novio, unos celos patológicos se apoderan de Hedra, y empieza a ejercer sobre ellos un terrible acoso.
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The Displaced View traces a personal search for identity and pride, within the unique and suppressed history of the Japanese in Canada. Through an examination of the emotional and cultural links between the women of one family, the processes of the construction of memory and the re-construction of history, are revealed. Utilizing an innovative combination of experimental, dramatic and documentary forms, the film emerges as a deeply moving and compassionate love letter. Just as the official history of the Japanese Canadians has been thrown into question, so does the film’s fictionalized narrative, question documentary as truth.
