Bay Of Herons | movie | 2023 | Official Featurette - video Dailymotion

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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:03 Hi, everyone.

00:05 My name is Jared Lank.

00:06 I'm a Mi'kmaq filmmaker from Southern Maine.

00:09 And I'm the director of Bay of Herons, a film playing this

00:11 year in the US Shorts program at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival.

00:17 Bay of Herons is very much a visual essay

00:20 that I made about my own reflection

00:22 and this contemplation I always have in the presence of nature.

00:26 The film originally started about the abandoned school

00:28 at the center of the island.

00:29 But I quickly found myself leaning more

00:32 into creating a film about my own experience going

00:35 to the island in this kind of recursive approach

00:38 to capturing the life there and how it made me feel,

00:41 not only as an indigenous person living

00:43 in their traditional homelands, but as a human being

00:46 experiencing the complex emotions of cultural loss

00:50 and cultural resiliency.

00:52 A huge component of the story I'm telling in Bay of Herons

00:55 is the inclusion of a 20th century Wabanaki

00:57 story about our cultural hero, Glouskap,

00:59 and his approach to the French to try to understand them.

01:03 This story was being told after hundreds

01:06 of years of interactions with the West at this point.

01:08 And it really reflects our cultures and our people

01:11 trying to understand what is happening

01:13 to them in this process.

01:15 Growing up in my family and seeing

01:17 the effects of this on my family has had a profound impact on me

01:21 and how I choose to live my life today.

01:23 I really tried to focus on the duality

01:27 in the landscape of Macworth Island,

01:29 this Western establishment in this abandoned building

01:31 in school in the middle of the island,

01:34 contrasted with the natural world that

01:35 has re-encroached upon it, in a way,

01:38 almost forcing out or rejecting the idea

01:40 of Western establishment on its foundation.

01:44 Anyway, that's it about Bay of Herons and my process

01:46 in making the film and some of the reasoning

01:48 for the creative choices I made.

01:49 Hope you get a chance to check out the film at Sundance

01:51 this year.

01:52 And I hope you have a great day.

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