Episode Thirty-Four: Kathleen Hepburn & Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers

Episode Thirty-Four: Kathleen Hepburn & Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers

Sabrina Furminger

The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open is a film not easily forgotten. The Vancouver shot feature was written and directed by Kathleen Hepburn and Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, and follows two Indigenous women who are strangers to each other – Rosie, portrayed by Violet Nelson, and Aisla, portrayed by Elle-Máijá – and the 100 minutes they spend together one rainy day in East Vancouver. Their story is told in real time, and it is at once intimate and infinite, a meditation on womanhood and motherhood and class and colonialism and how can we support each other across the vastness of individual traumas. The film had its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival, won awards at the Toronto International Film Festival and the Vancouver International Film Festival, and it was recently acquired by ARRAY, the distribution company helmed by Ava DuVernay who took to Twitter to describe the film as a gem with the most emotional film title she’d ever heard. In this special episode, Kathleen and Elle-Máijá join Sabrina Furminger to talk about honouring and sharing this important story, depicting trauma onscreen without re-traumatizing anyone involved, and how to collaborate without losing your individual voice.

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