75 - Blood Quantum: exploring colonialism with a katana

Blood Quantum, Jeff Barnaby's Miꞌkmaq zombie movie is sick and you should watch it:
Shudder // YouTube // Apple TV

Genre fiction has always been home to robust social critique, and this timely movie is no different. Set on the Red Crown reserve, a sheriff, a nurse, and their fractured family need to adapt to a new zombified world. Along the way, conversations on Indigenous-settler relations, decolonization, apocalypse, refugees, and putting a chainsaw through a zombie's head are handled nicely. 

Notes: 

1. Is The Crown At War With Us? (2002) [NFB]
2. Dancing Around the Table Parts 1 + 2 (1987-1988) [NFB]
3. Distorted Descent: White Claims to Indigenous Identity by Darryl Leroux [Buy]

ReComradations:

• Laura: Rewatching Mad Men
• Abdul: [1] Inside the Kingdom by Robert Lacey [2] Narmada: A Valley Rises, dir. Ali Kazimi (1994) [more]
• Evan: Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States by Audra Simpson

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