"I'm your resident bitch for the day - welcome to the workshop!" - Anti-racism expert Jane Elliott. That's how anti-racism expert Jane Elliott describes her role in this reality-based documentary that challenges Canadian attitudes towards Native Canadians.
Learn more"I'm your resident bitch for the day - welcome to the workshop!" - Anti-racism expert Jane Elliott. That's how anti-racism expert Jane Elliott describes her role in this reality-based documentary that challenges Canadian attitudes towards Native Canadians.
"Even nice Canadians are racist..." With cameras rolling, she divides the 22 unsuspecting participants by eye color - blue eyes in one group, brown eyes (many of them Native Canadian) in the other. Elliott turns the tables on the participants, treating the blue eyes as "persons of color", confronting and browbeating them, while the brown eyes are treated with respect. Filmed in Regina, Sask., Indecently Exposed illustrates and exposes how systematic racism continues to thrive in Canada today.
Powerful insights into the personal lives of the participants combined with the intensity of the workshop experience, create an engrossing emotional and psychological drama as the blue eyes learn what it feels like to be a target of discrimination. The experience causes many of the participants to re-evaluate their behavior and think about change.
The goal, Elliott says, is to find even one person who is willing to stand up and change things, to become an activist, to do something about the problem. As brown-eyed Clayton Maxxi puts it best: "We wish this never existed, that it was just a movie, but it's real!"
Filmed in Regina, Sask., Indecently Exposed illustrates and exposes how systematic racism continues to thrive in Canada today
Running time: 59 minutes
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