The Ballad of Oppenheimer Park (2016)

Original title

La balada del Oppenheimer Park

Directed by

Juan Manuel Sepúlveda

Genre

documentary film, comedy film, Western film, adventure film, historical film

Country

Mexico

Runtime

1h 11m

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A documentary about First Nations people living in a Vancouver park. They rest, perform, and protest on ancestral land while playfully teasing the filmmaker. The movie uses Western genre conventions in an experimental way.

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What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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