“Indigenous artists use the creative process of filmmaking for revitalization and narrative sovereignty. Our stories tell us where we came from, re-create our truths, affirm our languages and culture, and inspire us to imagine our Indigenous future. We come from the stars. How far will we take this medium?”—Missy Whiteman, guest curator (Northern Arapaho and Kickapoo Nations)
INDIgenesis: GEN 3, an ongoing showcase of works by Native filmmakers and artists, was scheduled to open for two weeks in the Walker Cinema on March 19, 2020. In collaboration with filmmakers and guest curator Missy Whiteman (Northern Arapaho and Kickapoo Nations), three of the shorts programs have been adapted for online viewing. Audiences are invited to collectively experience INDIgenesis with us on alternative screens.
To ensure that filmmakers maintain control of their works, links are provided to filmmaker hosted sites. Online access to films is available for the duration that these links are publicly shared by the filmmakers. Password protected films are made available until April 15.
Read more about the originally scheduled INDIgenesis GEN 3 series, canceled in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Visit Crosscuts, the Walker Reader’s Moving Image page, for more details on these upcoming digital iterations of INDIgenesis: GEN 3.
SCHEDULE
Tuesday, March 24
Indigenous Lens, Our Reality
Lineup listed below
Thursday, March 26
Shorts: Revitalization
See original lineup here.
Friday, March 27
Filmmaker Q&A
A live, online conversation led by Missy Whiteman and participating filmmakers is scheduled for Friday at 3 pm. Check back at Crosscuts for more details to come.
Wednesday, April 1
Mediatheque Playlist: INDIgenesis
See original lineup here.
Shorts Program: Indigenous Lens: Our Reality
Available March 24
Indigenous Lens: Our Reality is a collection of short films showcasing contemporary stories about what it means to be Indigenous today, portraying identity and adaptability in a colonialist system. The program spans a spectrum of themes, including two-spirit transgender love, coming of age, reflections on friends and fathers, “indigenizing” pop art, and creative investigations into acts of repatriation.
Lore
Directed by Sky Hopinka
(Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians)
In Sky Hopinka’s Lore, images of friends and landscapes are fragmented and reassembled as a voice tells stories, composing elements of nostalgia in terms of lore. 2019, 10 min.
Culture Capture: Terminal Adddition
Enter password to view: nro
Directed by New Red Order: Adam Khalil (Ojibway), Zack Khalil (Ojibway),
Jackson Polys (Tlingit), Bayley Sweitzer
The latest video by the public secret society known as the New Red Order is an incendiary indictment of the norms of European settler colonialism. Examining institutionalized racism through a mix of 3D photographic scans and vivid dramatizations, this work questions the contemporary act of disposing historical artifacts as quick fixes, proposing the political potential of adding rather than removing. 2019, 7 min.
Mino Bimaadiziwin
Directed by Shane McSauby
(Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians)
In Shane McSauby’s Mino Bimaadiziwin a trans Anishinaabe man meets a young Anishinaabe woman who pushes him to reconnect with their culture. 2017, 10 min.
The Moon and the Night
Directed by Erin Lau (Kanaka Maoli)
In Erin Lau’s Moon and the Night, a Native teenage girl in rural Hawaii must confront her father after he enters her beloved pet in a dogfight. 2018, 19 min.
Shinaab II
Video not available at this time
Directed by Lyle Mitchell Corbine, Jr.
(Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Chippewa Indians)
A young man seeks to honor the memory of his late father in a film that looks at Ojibwe ideas surrounding death and mourning. 2019, 6 min.
Viva Diva
Enter password to view: INDI
Directed by Daniel Flores
(Yaqui)
This road trip movie follows Rozene and Diva as they make their way down to Guadalajara for their gender affirmation surgeries. 2017, 15 min.
Dig It If You Can
Directed by Kyle Bell
(Creek-Thlopthlocco Tribal Town)
Kyle Bell’s Dig It If You Can is an insightful portrait of the self-taught artist and designer Steven Paul Judd (Kiowa), whose satirical manipulations of pop culture for an Indigenous audience are gaining a passionate, mass following as he realizes his youthful dreams. 2016, 18 min.