ALFF 2025 - So Surreal: Behind the Masks

Tuesday, February 11, 2025 at 6:00 pm
Yukon Theatre
Part caper, part road trip, part spiritual journey, So Surreal: Behind the Masks follows award-winning Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond (Reel Injun, Red Fever) as he travels coast-to-coast and across the Atlantic and back, gradually piecing together this ground-breaking global story of influence, reconnection, and hopeful restitution.
So Surreal: Behind the Masks is a feature documentary that traces the storied journey of Indigenous masks from the far reaches of Turtle Island (North America) into the hands of European Surrealists, influencing the work and worldview of some of the most well-known modern artists and writers of all time including Max Ernst, André Breton and Joan Miró - all while following the dramatic efforts to return a ceremonial mask that was brutally stolen from the Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw people on Canada’s northwest coast over a century ago.
Co-Director Joanne Robertson in attendance.