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First Stories - Patrick Ross

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Patrick Ross is Ervin Chartrand's second short film. In the 6-minute piece, Chartrand renders a beautiful cinematic portrait of ex-prison inmate, 29-year-old Patrick Ross, a Dakota from the Sioux Valley Dakota Nation, Ross was not an artist, nor a spiritual person, until he came to Manitoba's Stony Mountain Institution. There he met artist inmate Terry Southwind, and started to paint. His work quickly evolved to a point where he felt most comfortable using white paint over black canvases - a style that can only be described as 'seeing'. We watch Patrick create one of his extraordinary paintings while he shares his thoughts on his art, his time in jail and his hopes for the future. "The film is like the artist it depicts: cool, articulate, with an undercurrent of hard-won wisdom that shines through in the work." - Randall King, Winnipeg Free Press.

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First Stories - Patrick Ross

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Digital Link

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Authors

Chartrand, Ervin
MacDonald, Joe
Scott, Michael
Mazur, Derek
National Film Board of Canada (Montreal)

Subjects

Native peoples
First Nations
Aboriginal peoples.
Indigenous peoples.--Ethnic identity.
First Nations artistsCanadian artistsPaintersEx-offendersFirst Nations paintingsManitoba
Documentary films.

Language

English

Published

Montreal : National Film Board of Canada, 2011.

Publication Desc

1 streaming video (5 min., 44 sec.) : sound.

Series

Awards Note

ReelWorld Award for Outstanding Canadian Short Film, 2006 Golden Sheaf Award - Category: Best Aboriginal, 2006

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General Note

Aboriginal filmmaker.
NFB's special programs:.First Stories.
Agency - English program:.Prairie Centre.
Agency:.Produced by the National Film Board of Canada with the participation of CBC Manitoba, Manitoba Film & Sound and Telefilm Canada.

Credit Note

Writer, Ervin Chartrand ; director, Ervin Chartrand ; cinematographer, Claude Savard ; sound recordist, George Addis ; editor, Kenneth George Godwin ; picture editor, Peter Myles Barnaby ; sound editor, Anita Lubosch ; re-recording mixer, Howard Rissin ; producer, Joe MacDonald ; executive producer, Michael Scott, Derek Mazur.

Time of Event Note

Recorded 2006.

Summary

Patrick Ross is Ervin Chartrand's second short film. In the 6-minute piece, Chartrand renders a beautiful cinematic portrait of ex-prison inmate, 29-year-old Patrick Ross, a Dakota  from the Sioux Valley Dakota Nation, Ross was not an artist, nor a spiritual person, until he came to Manitoba's Stony Mountain Institution. There he met artist inmate Terry Southwind, and started to paint. His work quickly evolved to a point where he felt most comfortable using white paint over black canvases - a style that can only be described as 'seeing'. We watch Patrick create one of his extraordinary paintings while he shares his thoughts on his art, his time in jail and his hopes for the future. "The film is like the artist it depicts: cool, articulate, with an undercurrent of hard-won wisdom that shines through in the work." - Randall King, Winnipeg Free Press.

System Det Note

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Awards Note

ReelWorld Award for Outstanding Canadian Short Film, 2006
Golden Sheaf Award - Category: Best Aboriginal, 2006

Source of Description Note (R)

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).