Movies: Robert Davidson Sr.

  • 2019
    Now Is the Time

    Now Is the Time (2019)

    Now Is the Time

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    When internationally renowned Haida carver Robert Davidson was only 22 years old, he carved the first new totem pole on British Columbia’s Haida Gwaii in almost a century. On the 50th anniversary of the pole’s raising, Haida filmmaker Christopher Auc...

    Now Is the Time
  • 1970
    This Was the Time

    This Was the Time (1970)

    This Was the Time

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    When Masset, a Haida village in Haida Gwaii (formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands), held a potlatch, it seemed as if the past grandeur of the people had returned. This is a colourful recreation of Indigenous life that faded more than two gen...

    This Was the Time
  • 1964
    Haida Carver

    Haida Carver (1964)

    Haida Carver

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    On Canada's Pacific coast this film finds a young Haida artist, Robert Davidson, shaping miniature totems from argillite, a jet-like stone. The film follows the artist to the island where he finds the stone, and then shows how he carves it in the man...

    Haida Carver