The Red Paper (movie)

The Red Paper (movie)

  • Production country: Canada
  • Producer: Dana Claxton
  • Release date: 1/1/1996
  • Run time: 14 min.

Movie description

The Red Paper asserts a voice of power and interpretation recounting the devastating consequences of colonialism. The European male wears a straitjacket, repeatedly mumbling “I did not know, I did not know,” in a familiar contemporary mantra that pleads self-proclaimed absolution from guilt by reason of ignorance of history. Claxton irreverently and consciously opts for a lack of historical specificity in favour of a totalizing haunting by history in the present.