The Ballad of Oppenheimer Park

Join us on e-flux Video & Film for an online screening of Juan Manuel Sepúlveda's The Ballad of Oppenheimer Park (2016), streaming from Wednesday, August 4 through Tuesday, August 17, 2021.

The Ballad of Oppenheimer Park follows Harley Prosper, Janet Brown, and Bear Raweater (First Nation exiles from Canadian reserves) as they make a movie within the confines of the park where they gather every day. Using their current life and their long history of oppression, their daily ritual of drinking together becomes a defiant celebration.

The Ballad of Oppenheimer Park is presented here as one of six films in Part Four | Frames for Alterity (Ethnography, Human Rights, Class, and Race), the final of four programs in the online series Me, You, and Everyone We Know: Interrelationality, Alterity, Globalization programmed by Irmgard Emmelhainz for e-flux Video & Film. The series will run in four thematic parts from June 23 through August 18, 2021. Each part will include a two-week group screening, and a live discussion. The series concludes with a repeat of all films from parts one through four on August 18.

For more information, contact program@e-flux.com.