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INAATE/SE/

2016 · 71 min

A restless, kaleidoscopic collage that asks you to sit with layered voices, images and history rather than follow a straight story.

Directed by: Zack Khalil, Adam Khalil
Genres: Documentary

Tagline: it shines a certain way. to a certain place./it flies. falls./
Overview: INAATE/SE/ re-imagines an ancient Ojibway story, the Seven Fires Prophecy, which both predates and predicts first contact with Europeans. A kaleidoscopic experience blending documentary, narrative, and experimental forms, INAATE/SE/ transcends linear colonized history to explore how the prophecy resonates through the generations in their indigenous community within Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. With acute geographic specificity, and grand historical scope, the film fixes its lens between the sacred and the profane to pry open the construction of contemporary indigenous identity.

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Directed by: Zack Khalil, Adam Khalil
Genres: Documentary

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Tone: earneststrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
eeriestrength 2 of 3
satiricalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: identity
memory
colonialism
faith
race
Places: countryside
small town
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
documentary
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Scales, 0 to 10
Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	1
Horror	2
Humour	3
Realism	7
Romance	1
Tension	3
Darkness	5
Complexity	8
Emotional weight	7

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