"Reclamation" is a documentary-style imagining of a post-dystopic future in Canada
after massive climate change, wars, pollution, and the after effects of the large
scale colonial project which has now destroyed the land. When Indigenous people are
left behind after a massive exodus by primarily privileged White settlers who have
moved to Mars, the original inhabitants of this land cope by trying to restore and
rehabilitate the beautiful country they feel they belong to. Complicated by the need
to look after southern climate refugees, this Post-Dystopic society struggles to reinvent
itself as a more healthy community, with opportunities for healing from shared trauma,
and using traditional Indigenous scientific knowledge to reclaim Canada environmentally.
Indigenous people demonstrate the jobs they are doing to heal Canada, the Earth, and
themselves, like clean water projects, gathering litter, disposing safely of hazardous
wastes, planting trees, conducting healing circles and ceremonies, playing together,
and having discussions about what it feels like to be left behind on what was seen
by White settlers as a dying, disposable, planet.
The Next 150 - Documentary Futurism. “Reclamation.” Accessed June 6, 2022. https://www.documentaryfuturism.ca/reclamation.
