Video

All Right

Aleesa Cohene

2003, 07:00 minutes, Colour & B/W, English

TAPECODE 687.02

Immigration and national security policies in Canada have become increasingly stringent in recent years, despite an on-going claim that Canada desires new citizens. Behind the forces of global capitalism a lack of self-awareness and knowledge about what Canadian citizens are taught to fear and why we fear it continues to suspend us between patriotism and participation, resulting in a sustained evasion of responsibility.

Using diverse found footage sources including immigration officer training videos, emotive gestures from horror films and sound clips from Canadian news broadcasts, Cohene takes the viewer on a provocative journey through her emotional and political labyrinth of these issues. All Right poses questions around Immigration Canada's white hegemony and its fear of the "unknown" and collective expressions of apathy vis-à-vis policy making. All Right paints a challenging, lyrical portrait of a society detaching from the complex relations of "mulitculturalism", immigration and global politics.

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Critical Writing

The Rest is Real: Selected Video Works of Aleesa Cohene
by Lisa Steele. Toronto: Vtape, 2012.
Aleesa Cohene: Something Better: YYZ Artist's Outlet, Toronto
by Jon Davies. C Magazine, Oct. Fall 2009, no. 103.
ExperiMental
by Daniel Cockburn. Point of View, 2004, no. 54.