Wilfred Buck | movie | 2024 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Moving between earth and stars, past and present, this hybrid feature documentary follows the extraordinary life of Wilf | dG1fczlpcmNicFhYTjA

Transcript

00:00This is what I'm known as.

00:08It means he has dreamt a dream and keeps it.

00:11I'm also known as Wilford Buck.

00:14I'm from Aposkiak.

00:15Free Nation.

00:16In my younger days, I was commonly known as Smokey Buck.

00:20I am of the fresh out of the bush, colonized, displaced people, trained and shamed by teachers,

00:27law enforcement, to be a hard-drinking, self-loathing, disaffected youth of the dirty Indian Beaver

00:32Boomer generation.

00:33I lived and died in North Central Manitoba.

00:37This is my reality fiction.

00:46Our people were never lost.

00:47That means anywhere they went was home.

00:49Our skies had all the stories that we hear about.

00:54You people were telling me about my people, about what I believed.

01:01I found something that was missing in my life.

01:07It was a sacred thing and it was a powerful thing.

01:10In order to walk away, you can't just change one or two things, you have to change everything.