John Houston Films

The White Archer (Fifty Minutes, Super 16mm, 2010)
(2010 Atlantic Film Festival review) Halifax-based filmmaker John Houston’s new film is a startling hour-long drama adapted from a story in his father James Houston’s 1967 collection of Inuit legends. The magic realist tale revolves around a young man who must train with ghostly elders in a parallel universe to master a terrifying bow in order to gain justice over the killers of his family. Using extraordinary location work with dashes of imaginative art direction and a self-conscious framing structure, The White Archer is a starkly original Inuit drama that takes northern storytelling to a whole new place entirely.

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L'NUK 101: Finding Common Ground (Forty-three Minutes, High Definition, 2019)
L’nuk (Mi’kmaq) Elder Joe Michael, invited by Acadia University to lecture on L’nuk Traditional Healing, chose instead to stage a re-enactment. Participating students were moved and galvanized! This led to their involvement in the making of a ground-breaking film exploring mutual healing from 400 years of colonialism. Woven throughout the re-enactments are interviews with participants: L’nuk Elders, Indigenous and Settler university students, and their professor. By expressing their true feelings they end up finding common ground.
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