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History, spirituality, and the law collide as tribal repatriation specialists fight to return and rebury Indigenous human remains, offering a revealing look at the still-pervasive worldviews that justified collecting them in the first place.\nThe film Aanikoobijigan [ancestor\/great-grandparent\/great-grandchild] documents the emotional and vital work of MACPRA (Michigan Anishinaabek Cultural Preservation and Repatriation Alliance). This alliance, made up of repatriation specialists representing all Michigan tribes, fights to bring their Ancestors and funerary objects home from settler colonial institutions like museums, libraries, and archives. Adam and Zack Khalil\u2019s monumental and formally daring film follows the pressing struggle to rebury Indigenous human remains that have been held in sterile storage, laying bare the history of Indigenous collections and the battle to recognize and enforce the laws intended to facilitate their repatriation to the communities they were originally stolen from. Using an essayistic approach alongside v\u00e9rit\u00e9 portraits, the film celebrates the courageous individuals who carry out this hard and emotionally draining labor of return. \n\n\u2014Sundance Film Festival\n\nAanikoobijigan [ancestor\/great-grandparent\/great-grandchild] directors Adam and Zack Khalil are members of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians. They are co-directors and co-editors of the feature documentary INAATE\/SE\/ [it shines a certain way. to a certain place.\/ it flies. falls.\/] (2016) which premiered as the closing night film of the Museum of Modern Art\u2019s Doc Fortnight Film Festival, and the experimental documentary short The Violence of a Civilization without Secrets (2017) which premiered at Sundance. The Khalils are core contributors to New Red Order, a public-secret society which calls attraction toward indigeneity into question, yet promotes this desire, and enjoins potential non-Indigenous accomplices to participate in the co-examination and expansion of Indigenous agency. \n\nAdam Khalil is an artist whose practice attempts to subvert traditional forms of image-making through humor, relation, and transgression. A co-founder of COUSINS Collective, Khalil\u2019s work has been exhibited or screened at the Museum of Modern Art, Sundance Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Tate Modern, HKW, Walker Arts Center, Lincoln Center, Palais de Tokyo, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Creative Time, Toronto Biennial 2019, Whitney Biennial 2019, Sharjah Biennial 15, Counterpublic Triennial 2023, among other institutions. Khalil is the recipient of various fellowships and grants, including a 2021 Creative Capital Award, a 2020 Herb Alpert Award, a Jerome Artist Fellowship, the Gates Millennium Scholarship, and honors from Sundance Art of Nonfiction and Cinereach.\n\nZack Khalil is a filmmaker and artist whose work centers Indigenous narratives in the present\u2014and looks towards the future\u2014through the use of innovative nonfiction forms. Khalil also works professionally as a video editor, most recently co-editing Alison O\u2019Daniels feature film The Tuba Thieves (2023), which premiered at Sundance. Khalil\u2019s own work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, Sundance Film Festival, New York Film Festival, CPH: DOX, HKW, Walker Arts Center, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Creative Time, Toronto Biennial 2019, Whitney Biennial 2019, 59th Venice Biennale, Sharjah Biennial 15, and Counterpublic Triennial 2023, among other institutions and festivals. Khalil is the recipient of various fellowships and grants, including a Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, a Sundance Art of Nonfiction grant, and the Gates Millennium Scholarship.\n\nFollowing the Penny Stamps Speaker Series screening of Aanikoobijigan at the Michigan Theater on October 12, a reception and Q&A will take place from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St.). Filmmakers Zack and Adam Khalil, with special guests, will speak in reflection on their film and process.\n\nIn partnership with the U-M Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) Office; U-M Museum of Anthropological Archeology; U-M Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum; U-M Department of Film, Television, and Media; U-M Department of Native American Studies; the U-M Department of American Culture; the U-M Inclusive History Project; the U-M Department of Anthropology; U-M Museum Studies Program; and the U-M Stamps Gallery.\n\nSeries presenting partners: Detroit PBS, ALL ARTS, and PBS Books. 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The performance features acclaimed actor David Strathairn, an Academy Award nominee for his portrayal of Edward R. Murrow in Good Night, and Good Luck. and an Emmy Award winner for Temple Grandin; acclaimed singer-songwriter Allison Moorer, an Oscar and Grammy-nominated artist known for her Americana songwriting and powerful storytelling; and Thornetta Davis, the award-winning Detroit vocalist known as the \"Queen of Detroit Blues.\" Drawing from letters, diaries, speeches, and songs, Voices of Dissent includes accounts from Ann Arbor, the University of Michigan, and across the state. Through a collaboration with the University of Michigan\u2019s Inclusive History Project, the production incorporates archival materials and local histories from the University\u2019s archives at Bentley Historical Library and the Labadie Collection that illuminate the experiences of people who have fought for justice, equality, and freedom. \n\nInspired by the work of historian Howard Zinn (1922-2010), the production is based on A People\u2019s History of the United States, which has sold more than five million copies, and Voices of a People\u2019s History of the United States, co-edited by Zinn and Arnove. By connecting these powerful historical voices to the present day, Voices of Dissent reminds audiences that the struggle for justice is ongoing and that democracy depends on the participation of everyday people.\n\nAnthony Arnove is the editor of several books, including Voices of a People\u2019s History of the United States, which he co-edited with Howard Zinn, and Voices of a People\u2019s History of the United States in the 21st Century, which he co-edited with Haley Pessin. He also wrote the introduction to the 35th anniversary edition of Zinn\u2019s classic book A People\u2019s History of the United States. 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