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Zeds (Blood Quantum)
Also called: zeds
Blood Quantum is a Canadian film by Jeff Barnaby, set on a First Nations reserve in Quebec in 1981. Its outbreak infects white people while Indigenous people are immune. Barnaby described the film as a commentary on colonialism.1
First appeared
2019
Released 2019Source work
Blood Quantum (2019)
Jeff BarnabyMade in
Canada
What causes it
Never explained
No cause is given.How you become one
A bite infects and transforms white people; Indigenous people are immune.
When did it first appear?
Released 2019
field notes
What the sources say
1
Indigenous people cannot be infected1
2
Dead animals reanimate too: a gutted salmon keeps moving and a dead dog gets up1
3
The title refers to laws that define Indigenous status by percentage of ancestry1
4
Set in 1981, the year of police raids on the Listuguj reserve1
5
Won seven Canadian Screen Awards1
6
After the outbreak the reserve becomes a fortified compound1
Sources
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