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In Visible Colours was an international festival in Vancouver dedicated to film and video by women of colour, co-founded by Zainub Verjee and Lorraine Chan that took place in 1989. It featured artists such as Tracey Moffatt, Gurinder Chadha, Alanis Obomsawin, Merata Mita and Mona Hatoum.

Focusing on global issues around diversity and representation, the festival featured over 100 films and videos by artists from 28 countries and 75 international delegates in attendance.

Background
The festival emerged out of post-war decolonization and the social and political upheavals around race, gender and politics of cultural difference in the late 1970's and 80's. The festival was in part a reaction to exhibitions such as the controversial MoMA exhibition "Primitivism in 20th Century Art: Affinity of the Tribal and the Modern" in Paris. Other exhibitions that emerged at around the same time in response to "Primitivism"'s colonial ethnography were "Magicians de la Terre" curated by Jean-Hubert Martin, presenting works by more that 100 Western and non-Western artist from 50 countries, Araeen's "The Other Story" in London, and Gerald McMaster's "In the Shadow of the Sun" in Ottawa.

Festival
Screenings held at the In Visible Colours festival include:

Julia Barco's Pregnant with Dreams Meera Dewan's Gift of Love Media Storm's From the Burning Embers Sabiha Sumar's Who Will Cast the First Stone? Mira Nair's India Cabaret Manjira Datta's The Sacrifice of Babulal Bhuiya Vasudha Joshi's and Ranjan Palit's Voices from Baliapal Deepa Dhanraj's What Has Happened to this City? Vijaya Mulay's Gangubai Hangal Trinh T. Minh-ha's Surname Viet Given Name Nam Heiny Srour's Leila and the Wolves Claire Prieto's and Roger McTair's Home to Buxton Dionne Brand and Claire Prieto's Older, Stronger, Wiser Sylvia Hamilton and Claire Prieto's Black Mother, Black Daughter Midi Onodera's The Displaced View Carol Geddes' Doctor, Lawyer, India Chief Loretta Todd's Eagle Run Tracey Moffatt's Nice Coloured Girls, A Change of Face, Solid Women, Spread the Word Merata Mita's Bastion Point, Patu! Mona Hatoum's Eyes Skinned, Measure of Distance Pratibha Parmar's Sari Red Gurinder Chadha's I'm British But... Maureen Blackwood's Perfect Image? Peng Xiaolian's Women's Story