Stories from the Land of Cain

Film Maker
Wihak, Mark
Year
1995
Country
Canada
Language
Format
16mm
Length
25
Genre
experimental
Category
history, Landscape

“Stories from the Land of Cain” is a film about Canada in a time of flux. It chronicles a journey from Batoche, Saskatchewan where the Metis under Louis Riel lost their struggle for independence, to the Plains of Abraham at Quebec where the course was set for the country that would become Canada. The journey breaks off in polyphonic reveries on home, landscapes, and stories from the road; casting back in history, moving forward through the landscape, drifting off in memory. A film about trying to hold a country together with stories.

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