Spirit of the Bluebird

Spirit of the Bluebird

Xstine Cook & Jesse Gouchey | Alberta

5:45, SD, 2011

REGIONAL PREMIERE

WNDX Jury 2011, Special Jury Prize: Best Prairie Work

Using spray paint on a fence and garage where Aboriginal mother and grandmother Gloria Black Plume was brutally murdered in 1999, Cree artist Jesse Gouchey paints a large scale animation of a bluebird in flight. The beauty and freedom of the bluebird’s motion is contrasted with remembrances of Gloria’s surviving family members, who give an emotional glimpse of a woman lost to violence and the injustice of the legal system.

PRINT SOURCE: Xstine Cook | xpandora@shaw.ca