DETERMINATIONS is a film that is uncompromising in its
creative, rhetoric, and political exploration.   Its
overt concerns are the issues surrounding the actions,
arrests, media attention and sentencing of the Vancouver
Direct Action Anarchist group.

The Vancouver Direct Action group carried out the most
violent political protest in Canada since the October
Crisis. They blew up the Litton Cruise Missile plant, -
an industrial plant in Ontario that built a hi-tech
component of the U.S. Military Cruise Missile, - amongst
a number of other "actions" in 1982-83.




"What makes DETERMINATIONS so extraordinary is that it
combines three different ideas, anyone which would be
sufficient for a lesser film, into a richly intersecting
weave.  We feel the filmmaker's clear condemnation of
what he regards as oppression and destruction; the film's
editing patterns encourage the viewer to think about
cause and effect and evaluate the material from an
ethical perspective, and yet stylistically the work is a
brooding, poetic meditation on its maker's horror of the
superficialities of the world media scape...What is most
impressive about the film is its overall emotional
impact."  -  F. Camper, The Chicago Reader.

"Revolutionary trash." - Ian Caddel, The Georgia Straight.

"A driving warp speed dissection of the Squamish Five
story, with a soundtrack that alone is worth the price of
admission." - Elizabeth Aird, The Vancouver Sun.

An austere political/poetic/analytic film from the late
eighties that denounces the mass media trance and its
creation of the illusion of freedom. 

75 minutes-- 16 mm - colour and B.W. --
Sound/Music: Burke/Hockenhull, DOA, The Subhumans, Gerry Hannah.

Festivals: The Leipzig International Documentary Film Festival,
The World Film Festival - Montreal.
For rental:oliverh@intergate.bc.ca