Marjorie Beaucage is a Two-Spirit Métis Auntie, filmmaker, ‘art-ivist’ and educator, a land protector and a water walker. Watch the video produced to recognize her artistry as a winner of the 2024 Governor General’s Award in visual and media arts.
For Beaucage, story is medicine. Her more than 40 films hold space for difference, giving voice to those often unheard in mainstream stories. Watch the Canada Council video on her work below (or here)
Go to the Marjorie Beaucage page at the GG Visual Arts & Media Awards, here.
Her recent book of poetry, leave some for the birds, documents her own movements for justice.
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Why did she burn everything. I didn’t quite understand. She wanted to free herself from her past work, since she is older now?
Yeah, I get your question: to release everything “back into the universe,” thereby freeing herself from the weight of the content of the journals. If you scan the web, there are many journal sites with advice to burn your work after a time.
Hum… while I understand it can be freeing for the person, history is being deleted. I guess she felt it was her work and did not need to “live on.”