Movies: Jesse Wente

  • 2021
    Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror

    Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021)

    Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror

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    An exploration of the cinematic history of the folk horror, from its beginnings in the UK in the late sixties; through its proliferation on British television in the seventies and its many manifestations, culturally specific, in other countries; to i...

    Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
  • 2019
    Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen

    Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen (2019)

    Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen

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    This film is an intimate portrayal of pioneering filmmaker Merata Mita told through the eyes of her children. Using hours of archive footage, some never before seen, her youngest child and director Hepi Mita discovers the filmmaker he never knew and ...

    Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen
  • 2010
    Reel Injun

    Reel Injun (2010)

    Reel Injun

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    The evolution of the depiction of the various Native American peoples in cinema, from the silent era to the present day: how their image on the screen has changed the way to understand their history and culture....

    Reel Injun
  • 2020
    Inconvenient Indian

    Inconvenient Indian (2020)

    Inconvenient Indian

    02020HD

    Based on the bestselling book, this urgent feature documentary from celebrated director Michelle Latimer will take viewers on a journey into the mind of one of the world’s foremost Indigenous intellectuals, and one of our greatest storytellers: Thoma...

    Inconvenient Indian