Before You Go

Before You Go is a 13-minute essay film exploring the relationship between immigration, memory, personal identity, and how it relates to a larger Canadian narrative. Approaching this film using a hybrid process, Before You Go uses home video, old family correspondences, and actors to re-create and interact with moments that are written about in the letters. While working to interrogate an often homogenized representation in the media of what it means to be Canadian, this film borrows its experimental form from the inherently fragmented, dispersed, and hybrid identities of immigrants.

Author dc:creator

• Joudaki, Bita

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Evans, Barbara

• Middle Eastern history

Statement dc:rights

• Author owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.

Language dc:language

en

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10315/38421

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:yorkspace.library.yorku.ca:10315/38421