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Set in a dystopic metropolitan hellscape: a spiritually exhausted and destitute Mi'gMaq man has resolved to assimilate into the ruling culture. He visits a surgical clinic - the display window littered with skin and limb samples - and undergoes a gruesome procedure, trading his red skin for white.
This film is Horror Poetry. It is the latest short film by Aboriginal filmmaker Jeff Barnaby, inspired by Pablo Neruda's poem "Walking Around". It is Jeff's take on cultural assimilation and cultural exhaustion.