Rhymes for Young Ghouls (Canada, 2016) - Screening and Discussion with Director Jeff Barnaby (Mi'kmaq)

Rhymes for Young Ghouls (Canada, 2016)
Screening and Discussion with Director Jeff Barnaby (Mi'kmaq)

Friday, March 25
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm ET

The title of Jeff Barnaby's first feature, Rhymes for Young Ghouls (2016) alludes to horror, but the horror portrayed in the film is not of the supernatural kind. Rather, this tale of trauma, hatred, and revenge deals with the horrors of the human and its institutions--school, church, reservation. In these sometimes terrifying spaces, Barnaby depicts with vivid clarity the operations of state power that shape indigenous people's lives. Join us for a screening (online, free at Kanopy through Bobst Library) followed by a Q and A with Anna McCarthy, Professor and Chair of Cinema Studies.

Free and open to the public.

The Department of Cinema Studies acknowledges that we are located on the unceded land of the Lenape peoples, Lenapehoking. We ask you to join us in acknowledging the Lenape community, their elders both past and present, as well as future generations. We are committed to honoring the original stewards of this land, the Indigenous peoples who have historically been excluded and erased, through an ongoing commitment to dismantling the legacies of settler colonialism.