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Rhayne Vermette's 16mm portrait of a woman reconnecting with her past.

Rhayne Vermette’s feature debut is a beguiling hybrid of auto-fiction and mythology, landscape film and chamber drama. Playing a young Métis woman returning to her hometown (and her young daughter) after a four-year absence, Vermette leads an ensemble of friends and family members whose intimate conversations and recollections evoke the past and present of Native life in Manitoba. While STE. ANNE borrows a central narrative thread from Wim Wenders’ 1984 classic PARIS, TEXAS, Vermette is more interested in unraveling the conventions of storytelling through improvisation and digression.

Following the screening, Vermette will appear for a conversation with guest curator Inney Prakash, founder of the Prismatic Ground film festival and a contributor to the recent publication, Exovede in the Darkroom: The Films of Rhayne Vermette.

Rhayne Vermette's visit is presented with support from the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities at Northwestern.