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Food and Food Industries (22)

Grains (6)

  • Wild Rice Harvest Kenora
    Wild Rice Harvest Kenora
    Alanis Obomsawin 1979 1 min
    Wild rice is an important source of food and revenue for many Anishinaabe people, who sometimes travel hundreds of kilometres to harvest the grain in the region around Kenora, Ontario. Directed by Alanis Obomsawin as part of the Canada Vignettes series.
  • The Noodles
    The Noodles
    Iris Boudreau  &  Francis Papillon 2019 2 min
    Iris loves noodles so much she could eat them morning, noon, and night. Cathon prefers using them to make little gifts for her friend. Any idea where noodles actually come from?
  • The Bread
    The Bread
    Cathon ,  Iris Boudreau , … 2019 2 min
    Cathon bakes Iris a very special kind of bread for her birthday, and pretty soon the two friends have gone down the rabbit hole, in search of the origins of bread. They even tell the tale of a whole army sculpted from bread.
  • Make Oatmeal Cookies?
    Make Oatmeal Cookies?
    Winston Washington Moxam 1999 4 min
    This short film reveals the story behind oatmeal cookies, from the farmer's field to fresh from the oven. Without words.
  • The Kudelka Method
    The Kudelka Method
    Yung Chang 2023 5 min
    After a lifetime in ballet—and honours including Officer of the Order of Canada, Dance Hall of Fame inductee and now, a Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award —dancer, choreographer and professional breadmaker James Kudelka wonders, “What’s this all about?” Kudelka reflects on his relationship with ballet as a subversive art and an approach to life, examining his artistic practice as it changes in time and form.
  • Rice Harvest
    Rice Harvest
    Norma Bailey  &  Bob Lower 1980 11 min
    This short documentary explores how the First Nations staple of wild rice is exported as a luxury food thanks in part to bush pilots. Follow the families of the Pauingassi band as they comb the reedy shores with brooms, paddles and baskets for manomim (wild rice).

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