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A personal narrative intercut with home movies,
a reading by the poet Robin Blaser, interviews ranging from a heart to heart with Robert MacNeil, to on the street encounters at Canada Day celebrations north and south of the border, "from sea to sea"*. "There is no meta-narrative" Lister says in the tape, "or as Yeats once wrote, 'the centre cannot hold. '" Does this lack of a traditional nationalist ideology in a decentred Canada become a model for a working post modern country, a 'new notion of a nation'? *Canada's motto in Latin, ad mare usque as mare |
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A-026
CONDITIONAL LOVE Ardele Lister Essay, Canada, 1997, 60 min, colour |
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