Words of Indigenous Media Artist and Performer Donald Morin, Residing on Turtle Island near other humans, animals, and birds.
Monday, June 10, 2013
Notes about Under Surveillance, the working title of my SFU FIlm Workshop Fourth year student film Crossings
Notes before the CTV link regarding under surveillance:
What`s on my mind? Thanking the Creator, The Great Spirit, all that was, is and to be...Fearing the worst of times, during the sign of times, What arising out of the news of four winds, the four races, the four directions, as we awake under surveillance by the capitalist beast. Under surveillance was the first working title of my Final Student Film CROSSINGS at SFU Film workshop 1989. It was a twisted tale from my imagination, my sex life, betrayal, and wondrous moments of abandonment. The lead was a woman who had an affair and tells, the young man, Oh, it was nothing,...then she gets in to a long monologue about her being a woman, getting beat, used, raped, and falling in love all at the same time. It was a true story told to me by an X, and as a young student artist at the time, I was simply being creative, and after five years of academic training, being brain washed into the euro- centric validation of artist that we all wanted to be, Being aboriginal, or native, NDN or Metis, was never really my bag. I was simply a student artist who happened to be an Indian. I as well just finished three upper level women studies courses, I was so determined to success, Even though Spirit Song Theatre and The Chief Dan George Film Video program were great, my history as the white Indian, I always felt under the watchful eye of the system, welfare, justice, dominant society ideology, and the embedded racism that judged us. We all know how history, the spectacle, and the body has defined the Indigenous signatory first people of this continent. Treaties that are void as they were signed under duress, as prisoners of war, we always had to be under the watchful eye of the government. Now it has moved to the masses, as the Prism Echelon machine gazes at all of us now, even you thru the Pyramidic eye.
When I wrote Under Surveillance, The first two drafts strongly critiqued by the profs, the feminist students, did not like the fact of the lead being a woman, and was too ambitious. I never liked the final script, the final film, Crossings, which the mixer at the post house created the release print out of sync. I was not happy, but such is life, I felt I was always under the watchful eye of the system, and being a young Indian student artist, this developed in my work during the OKa crisis when I worked for CBC news, started community radio, then under surveillance with my 7 fires 4 U Kitchi Manitou Film, and then asked to be an intelligence officer for The system.
Now 2013, we are waking up to the Orwellian world, Mr Orwell created back in the 40s. I performed the role of Winston Smith in Carnegie Theatre's 1984 stage adaptation of Orwell's novel. Again, questions arose; what's he doing the role for, he's not English? He's not white? Anyway, the first people were always under the watchful eye of their "other" because colonialism defined us as the enemy in the way of their brave new world. Watch you back now FBers, and anyone else, The invisible has BEEN REVEALED, now what are you going to do?
http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/how-canadian-internet-users-may-be-getting-caught-in-u-s-surveillance-1.1318910
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