"Star guy" a night of indigenous lore about the stars
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Star Guy” Wilfred Buck, an elder from the Opaskwayak Cree Nation, has committed his life to teaching how science has always been at the core of Indigenous ways of understanding the world. Inviting viewers to reconsider how we know the world around us, Anishinaabe filmmaker Lisa Jackson’s hybrid documentary portrait of this First Nations astronomer integrates Buck’s life story with his deep knowledge of Cree, Ojibwe, and Lakota peoples’ millennia-long observations of the stars, revealed through legends, cosmologies, and quantum physics. 2024, Aamjiwnaang First Nation/Canada, DCP, 97 min.
Don’t miss the chance to step inside an immersive planetarium and journey through the night skies with Wilfred Buck at Free Thursday Night on February 13.
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"Star guy" a night of indigenous lore about the stars