Video

I Want To Know Why

Dana Claxton

1994, 06:20 minutes, Colour, English

TAPECODE 485.01

The videomaker investigates the women in her family who have succumbed prematurely to external forces of racism and poverty. Using repetition and manipulation of western images of First Nations culture with an at first timid, then demanding voice over, the video moves through sorrow and indignation with the processes of cultural genocide.

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Critical Writing

Dana Claxton: Fringing the Cube
by Grant Arnold. Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery, 2018.
Of the Moment / In the Moment
by Lisa Myers. Toronto: V tape, 2014.
"arrives asking, demanding something of us"
by Janice Hladki. Fierce: Women's Hot Blooded Film/Video, Mar. 2010. Hamilton: McMaster Museum of Art, 2010.
The Ongoing Powers of Dana Claxton
by Jeremy Todd. Fierce: Women's Hot Blooded Film/Video, Mar. 2010. Hamilton: McMaster Museum of Art, 2010.
Ardent Spaces, Formidable Environments
by Patricia R. Zimmerman. Fierce: Women's Hot Blooded Film/Video, Mar. 2010. Hamilton: McMaster Museum of Art, 2010.
Our Collective Fears
by Sherri Telenko. id Magazine, Fall 1998.