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‘Wilfred Buck,’ About Indigenous Star Lore Expert, Is a Feel-Good Story, Director Lisa Jackson Says
Lisa Jackson's 'Wilfred Buck,' about Indigenous star lore expert, has its world premiere at leading European doc fest CPH:DOX.
Speaking to Variety ahead of her film’s world premiere at leading European doc fest CPH:DOX, Lisa Jackson was keen to emphasize that “ Wilfred Buck ” is what she calls a “feel-good story” despite addressing dark issues related to Canada’s colonial past. Written and directed by Jackson (“Biidaaban: First Light”), the film is a hybrid doc that follows the extraordinary life story of the eponymous charismatic science facilitator, an expert in Indigenous lore about astronomy, who overcame a harrowing history of displacement, racism and addiction by reclaiming ancestral star knowledge and ceremony. “What I saw was that they’re not even speaking the same language — I witnessed a real willingness, an interest in Indigenous methodologies, ways of knowing, but I think the film is an invitation for that dialogue to start,” she says, referring to the growing conversation between the Western scientific community and Indigenous knowledge keepers, illustrated in her film by a high-level conference at Harvard University where Buck is invited to share his star knowledge.
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