“美丽的疤痕”打开了加拿大音乐偶像的发现，发现他的土著身份
‘Beautiful Scars’ Unpacks a Canadian Music Icon’s Discovery of his Indigenous Identity
2014年，现年53岁，来自安大略省汉密尔顿的歌手兼作词人汤姆·威尔逊（Tom Wilson）有一堆金色的唱片和故事，发现他已经被收养了。不久之后，他得知他的亲生父母是蒙特利尔郊外卡纳瓦克社区的莫霍克族。迄今为止熟悉威尔逊故事的粉丝 - 一个早熟的当地青少年摇滚乐手长大了，成长为90年代的90年代主要标签Alt-Rock Unit Junk House Junk House，战斗各种恶魔，变得清醒，开始绘画，演变成著名的三人布莱基和牛仔竞技王者和前卫的李·哈维·奥斯蒙德（Lee Harvey Osmond）中的一个值得注意的人，这标志着他的个人叙事和主题上的实质性转变威尔逊2017年的回忆录“美丽的伤痕：钢史密斯的秘密，莫霍克天行者和道路之家”（加拿大Doubleday）成为加拿大的畅销书。一部新纪录片，目前在Hot Docs的观众前20名中，继续他的JOurney。由Shane Belcourt创作和导演，“美丽的伤疤”是由Cream Films执行副总裁Corey Russell制作的，是与APTN合作制作的TVO原创，每年都有Hot Docs-Slaight Family Fund的资金为三到五张纪录片提供财政支持，这些纪录片突出了加拿大音乐在世界上的角色或从加拿大的角度讲述的国际故事。“现在重要的工作是继续向尽可能多的人讲述这个故事，以尽我所能 - 我以自己的方式尊重莫霍克文化。他在电影中回忆起朋友，这是他在挖掘家庭传说之前的摇滚几年追溯。他从小就认为自己是一个“大爱尔兰人”，但总是有疑问。邦妮（Bunny）于2010年去世，享年96岁，将会Ometimes指的“秘密”是关于她会带到她的坟墓的“秘密”。然后，2015年，莫霍克族的妇女威尔逊从小就知道他的堂兄，珍妮·拉扎尔（Janie Lazare）透露她是他的出生母亲，也是兔子的表弟。最终，威尔逊了解了他的出生父亲（1991年去世）和半兄弟姐妹的身份，其中一些人出现在电影中。对这部电影的偏执。”威尔逊在他独特的地下男中音中说。 “但是与此同时，它为这个国家和世界打开了大门，以更好地理解殖民主义对身份的影响。” Belcourt来自混杂的背景，其父亲Tony Belcourt是一个众所周知的梅蒂斯（Métis）加拿大的权利领袖和激进主义者说，“美丽的伤疤”是个人变得普遍的纪录片之一。 Belcourt说。 “我们现在所处的那一刻是，土著讲故事的人能够提供这些故事，并且有一些不言而喻的东西可以访问。”这部电影最初旨在锚定在威尔逊的独白上，成为与珍妮的对话。 “那是电影制作中的发现，” Belcourt继续说道。 “这对两者都是个人的：对于那些不得不放弃远处观看的人，以及那些必须孤立并找到自己的路的人。”我以我们没有看到的方式靠近。谈到了电影中不一定在电影中谈论的话题，但没有电影就不会发生。“珍妮和我是这个故事中最后一个站在这个故事中的人。我们的工作是尝试说出真相 - 我们的真相，我们的感觉。“这不是最后一个故事，”威尔逊补充说。 “希望它会允许厨房里的人们，甚至甚至他们的工作场所都可以说话埃利。我们作为讲故事的人最伟大的工作是打开下一个人的大门，让他们知道他们也可以讲故事。为了使行业通行证持有人在Doc Shop上流式传输，直到5月31日。
In 2014, at age 53, Tom Wilson, a singer-songwriter from Hamilton, Ontario, with a stack of gold records and stories aplenty, found out quite accidentally that he had been adopted. Soon afterward he learned that his biological parents were Mohawk from the Kahnawake community, just outside of Montreal.
For legions of fans familiar with Wilson’s story thus far—a precocious local teenage rocker grows up to found ’90s major-label alt-rock unit Junkhouse, battles various demons, gets sober, starts to paint, evolves into a troubadour of note in the acclaimed trio Blackie and the Rodeo Kings and the edgier collaborative Lee Harvey Osmond—this revelation marked a substantial shift in his personal narrative and in the subject matter of his creative work.
Wilson’s 2017 memoir “Beautiful Scars: Steeltown Secrets, Mohawk Skywalkers and the Road Home” (Doubleday Canada) became a best-seller in Canada. A new documentary, currently on Hot Docs’ Audience Top 20 list, continues his journey.
Written and directed by Shane Belcourt, “Beautiful Scars” is produced by Corey Russell, executive vice president of Cream Films, and is a TVO Original made in partnership with APTN, with funding from the Hot Docs-Slaight Family Fund, which annually offers financial support to three to five documentaries highlighting Canadian music’s role in the world or featuring international stories told from a Canadian perspective.
“The important work now is to keep telling this story to as many people as I can in as many mediums as I can — I'm honoring the Mohawk culture in my own way,” Wilson told Variety before the film’s world premiere at Hot Docs.
Wilson was raised in Hamilton as the only child of Bunny and George Wilson, who were much older than the parents of his friends, he recalls in the film, which traces his rock-n-roll years before digging into family lore. He grew up thinking of himself as a “big Irish guy” but always had questions. Bunny, who died in 2010 at age 96, would sometimes refer to “secrets” about him that she would take to her grave.
Then in 2015, Janie Lazare, a Mohawk woman Wilson had known from childhood as his cousin, revealed she was his birth mother and a cousin of Bunny. Eventually Wilson learned the identity of his birth father (who died in 1991) and of half-siblings, some of whom appear in the film.
“Throwing yourself on the bloody tracks of a documentary is, you know, well, I can get pretty paranoid about this film,” said Wilson in his distinctively subterranean baritone. “But at the same time, it opens up the door for this country and the world to better understand the effects of colonialism on identity.”
Belcourt, who comes from a mixed background and whose father, Tony Belcourt, is a well-known Métis Rights leader and activist in Canada, said “Beautiful Scars” is one of those documentaries in which the personal becomes universal.
“Tom, who is an amazing raconteur, initially told me, ‘Janie’s not going to be a part of it’,” Belcourt said. “The moment we are in now is that Indigenous storytellers are able to offer the stories, and there are unspoken things that allow access.”
The film, which was originally intended to be anchored on Wilson’s monologue, became a dialogue with Janie. “That was the discovery within the filmmaking,” Belcourt continued. “It was personal for both: for the one who had to give up and watch from afar, and for the one who had to be isolated and find his way back.”
Wilson said Belcourt ended up being “a facilitator who brought my mother and I closer together in ways that we didn't see coming. Subjects were talked about that are not necessarily in the movie, but that never would have happened without the movie.
“Janie and I are the last people standing in this story. It is our job to try and tell the truth—our version of the truth, what we feel.
“This is not the last story,” Wilson added. “Hopefully it will allow people in the kitchen, maybe even their work places, to speak freely. Our greatest job as storytellers is to open up the door to the next person and let them know they can tell their stories too.”
“Beautiful Scars” had its world premiere in the Artscapes strand and, like most 2022 Hot Docs titles, is available for industry passholder to stream on the Doc Shop until May 31.
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