Indigenous filmmaker. Agency:.Produced for the NFB by Henning Jacobsen Productions Limited for Indian Affairs, Department of Indian and Northern Affairs.

Music, null Shingoose ; director of photography, David M. Ostriker, Naohiko Kurita, Jackson Samuels ; writer, Bruce Martin ; editor, Michael MacLaverty ; director, Duke Redbird, Henning Jacobsen.

Recorded 1974.

In this revealing study of Norval Morrisseau, filmed as he works among the lakes and woodlands of his ancestors, we see a remarkable Anishinaabe artist who emerged from a life of obscurity in the North American bush to become one of Canada's most renowned painters. Morrisseau the man is much like his paintings: vital and passionate, torn between his Ojibway heritage and the influences of the white man's world. Jack Pollock, the Toronto art gallery owner who discovered Morrisseau's paintings in the early 1960s, comments on what makes them so unique.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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