Film
CANCELLED: Edge of the Knife + director Q&A
- Director
- Gwaai Edenshaw, Helen Haig-Brown
- Certificate
- TBA
- Running Time
- 100 mins
This fascinating period drama is the first feature to be performed in the endangered Haida language of Haida Gwaii. (Don’t worry – there are English subtitles.) A community initiative created with input from Haida Gwaii residents themselves, it tells the traditional Haida story of a traumatised and stranded man transformed into Gaagiixiid – the wildman. Here’s the full synopsis: “In a 19th-century summer, two large families gather for their annual fishing retreat on the far-removed island of Haida Gwaii. Adiitsʹii, a charming nobleman, causes the accidental death of his best friend Kwa’s son and hastens into the wilderness. Adiitsʹii is tormented by what he has done and spirals into insanity, becoming Gaagiixiid, a supernatural being crazed by hunger. He unexpectedly survives the winter, and at next year’s gathering, the families try to convert Gaagiixiid, back to Adiitsʹii, while Kwa also wrestles with a desire for revenge.”
The Cube’s screening will be follwoed by a a Q&A with co-director, Gwaii Edenshaw and Jo Prince, director of Bristol’s Rainmaker Gallery
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