The Ballad of Oppenheimer Park (2016)
1h 10m
Running Time
March 9, 2016Release Date
The Ballad of Oppenheimer Park (2016)
1h 10m
Running Time
March 9, 2016Release Date
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Plot.
The Ballad of Oppenheimer Park is a film that celebrates the everyday life of a group of Indigenous people, exiles from Canadian reserves, who, over a fleeting summer, hang out in a contested park in Vancouver. Through direct participation in the filmmaking process, the day to day becomes a ceremonial space in the ongoing confrontation against law and order.
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Cast & Crew.
Juan Manuel Sepulveda
Director
Isidore Bethel
Producer
Elsa Reyes
Producer
Harley Prosper
Janet Brown
Marcus Raweater
Rosa Matilpi
Dave Young
Joe Chastis
Details.
Release DateMarch 9, 2016
Original NameLa balada del Oppenheimer Park
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 10m
Genres
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Wiki.
The Ballad of Oppenheimer Park (Spanish: La Balada del Oppenheimer Park) is a 2016 Mexican documentary film by Juan Manuel Sepúlveda. It chronicles the lives of several First Nations people occupying Oppenheimer Park in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. They rest, recreate, perform, and protest in the park, on land that belonged to their ancestors. Throughout, they tease the filmmaker, who spent two years filming in the park, and use performance to ridicule stereotypical representations of their identities. The film is experimental in its narrative structure and plays with Western genre tropes.