Critical Thinkers Series: Clément Lagouarde

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Presented by the Centre for Cinema Studies and Cinema Thinks the World, the Critical Thinkers Series features research talks by notable and emerging scholars in Cinema and Media Studies.

About Dr. Clément Lagouarde
Clément Lagouarde is a member and the current French ambassador of the Natchitoches Tribe of Native Americans. Born in France, he only recently discovered his Indigenous heritage, tracing his lineage to his great-grandfather, Thomas Dixon, a Natchitoches tribe member from Louisiana who left the United States to serve in World War I. He has deeply invested himself in the reconstruction of his tribe, actively working to revive its nearly lost language, which he ultimately placed at the centre of his short film “Notre Père”, performed entirely in Natchitoche.

Lagouarde hold a PhD in Arts Theory and History From Bordeaux, France. His work challenges the boundary between fiction and reality through a comparative analysis of theatre and contemporary performance art, as well as an epistemological study of their traces, using examples of memory, writing, and “evidence”.

Filmmaking as a Means to Discovering Identity between France and the Natchitoches Tribe
The program will feature three of Clément Lagouarde’s short films: “13 Octobre”, a satirical comedy exploring colonization from the perspective of the gods; “Notre Père” (Our Father), a poignant tribute to a father by his two children—Indigenous expatriates living in France; and “Super Autochtone” (Super Indigenous), which addresses the legacy of residential schools.

This talk is co-sponsored by the Centre de la Francophonie and the Centre for European Studies.

This event is free and there is no need to RSVP.
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