Nadine Changfoot

Nadine Changfoot

Nadine Changfoot

 “I desperately wanted my body to erase itself . . . and reappear white.”This personal short film by Trent University professor Nadine Changfoot looks back at the time when she was eight years old – at the self-hating, dislocating, and disembodying experience of being racialized and othered from the outside – compared to an earlier time, at four years old, when she was happy and belonging was a given. Even as an adult she hears, “Where are you from?” She still experiences being seen through a racialized and othering gaze. Nadine hopes that her film will encourage reflection on what it means to belong and on the Canadian gaze that can be reconstituted in more accepting, diverse, and inclusive ways

Directed by: Nadine Changfoot
Canada  |   |  3 min
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