Randolph Lewis. Alanis Obomsawin: The Vision of a Native Filmmaker.\n
Bibliographic record
Abstract
95US (paper)Alanis Obomsawin has carved out a significant place for herself in Canadian cinema, from her early days as a consultant and director of short films to her current position as director of major documentary works, notably Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance (1993).A behind-the-barricades account of the Oka crisis of 1989-90, in which Mohawk warriors stood off the Canadian military over a land-rights dispute, the feature-length documentary garnered awards in film festivals around the world and is now a canonical text in studies of Canadian cinema.Obomsawin was raised in an Abenaki village near Montreal.She knew anti-Native prejudice as well as her own traditions from early on and as a beautiful and talented young woman she began a career as a folk-singer and story-teller.She soon became ensconced in the 1960s Montreal art scene, where Leonard Cohen's revolutionary novel, Beautiful Losers (1966), modeled the motif of Mohawk Saint Takawitha on Obomsawin's childhood memories and adult personality.When the National Film Board (NFB) embarked on a documentary to be filmed on a remote native reserve, they called her in as consultant.As the first Native person on staff at the NFB, it was a while before she got to move behind the camera.When she did, it was for a short film, Christmas at Moose Factory (1971), an animated short based on children's drawings of reservation life.Obomsawin never looked back.Lewis's book offers useful biographical details as well as historical and political contextualisations of Obomsawin's films.His writing in these accounts is journalistic and compelling, pulling no
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.070 | 0.015 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".