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There Are Hierarchies of Grief honours lost loved ones

By: Petra Chase, Arts and Culture Editor There Are Hierarchies of Grief plunges into the way grief suddenly swallows you. The five-minute short film is part of the CBC Gem series, How to Lose Everything, which features five short films about loss. There Are Hierarchies of Grief was a collaborative project centred around Smokii Sumac’s poem, with the help of Indigenous creatives and elders with translation, music, and animation.  Sumac’s spoken word poem begins with drawings fading in and out of blue hues, notebook lines, and a gentle guitar riff. Backed by a hopeful heartbeat, Sumac’s words and anecdotes tug…

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