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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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