Encounter at Kwacha House - Halifax

The scouts

A 1967 documentary where teenagers actually talk about race without the usual liberal hand-wringing feels almost transgressive now—but Tasker doesn't flinch from letting disagreement breathe, which most issue docs refuse to do.

This is the essay film in its purest form: a considered architectural choice to let dialogue and duration do the argumentative work, situating itself squarely in the NFB's tradition of social inquiry with formal restraint.

The single decision that makes this live is the refusal to cut away or underline—just bodies in a room talking, which means every hesitation and interruption becomes the texture of the thing itself.