Some Trump voters in Pacific County, Washington – and a lot of places across the US – didn’t quite realize what they were getting in to when they voted for a guy who openly humiliated, profiled, and castigated a lot of people in his presidential campaign. In this video people wake up to the fact that undocumented immigrants are neighbors, schoolmates, community members… and to the unnerving things that are happening to their communities, their economies, and their sense of justice.
A young woman, guided by Spider Woman, must overcome colonial
history and education to find herself. Michif director and animator
Amanda Strong combines puppets and stop motion in this arrestingly
beautiful short.
Amanda Strong is an Indigenous (Michif) filmmaker, media artist
and stop motion artist currently based in unceded Coast Salish
territory, also known as Vancouver. She studied photography and
illustration at Sheridan Institute and extended those mediums into
creations in media arts.