The Ballad of Oppenheimer Park is a 2016 Mexican documentary film by Juan Manuel Sepúlveda. It chronicles the lives of several First Nations people occupying Oppenheimer Park in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. They rest, recreate, perform, and protest in the park, on land that belonged to their ancestors. Throughout, they tease the filmmaker, who spent two years filming in the park, and use performance to ridicule stereotypical representations of their identities. The film is experimental in its narrative structure and plays with Western genre tropes.
The Ballad of Oppenheimer Park (2016)
Directed by Juan Manuel Sepulveda
Genres - Action-Adventure, Comedy, Documentary, History, Western |
Sub-Genres - Historical Film, Western Film |
Release Date - Mar 9, 2016 |
Run Time - 71 min. |
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2016, Ancestral Land, Experimental Narrative, Filmmaker Interaction, First Nations People, Oppenheimer Park, Performance, Protest, Recreation, Stereotypical Representations, Two Years Filming, Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, Western Genre Tropes
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Subject: Documentary about First Nations, Documentary about indigenous rights
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Alternate Titles
La balada del Oppenheimer Park
CA, MX
The Ballad of Oppenheimer Park
CA, GB, US