Event Description
This program begins with films by makers from different backgrounds, different countries, different homelands, and different nations. Each artist makes works that traverse a wide range of topics dealing directly and indirectly with Indigeneity: assertions of identity and presence in the face of—and regardless of—colonial history and outdated traditions of anthropology, ethnography, and representation. For me, they fit together so well because of how different they are and how they state and assert their individuality, their humor, their deliberations, and their love. I love and respect all of the filmmakers in this program, and they have all challenged and transformed the way that I look at the world and how I exist in it. They make space for poetry, for beauty, for movement between cosmological and visceral worlds, sometimes blurring the lines between both. They’ll teach you things you didn’t know you needed to learn; they claim what was always theirs and celebrate what was never lost.
— Sky Hopinka
Films in this screening
Creatura Dada Caroline Monnet, Canada, 2016
Itzcóatl Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, Mexico, 2016
Less Lethal Fetishes Thirza Cuthand, Canada, 2019
The Violence of a Civilization Without Secrets Adam Khalil, Zack Khalil, Jackson Polys, United States, 2017
Reflections on postmortem justice through the case of the “Kennewick Man.”
Just Dandy Thirza Cuthand, Canada, 2013
Gephyrophobia Caroline Monnet, Canada, 2012
Impressions for a Light and Sound Machine (Impresiones para una máquina de luz y sonido) Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, Mexico, 2014
Mobilize Caroline Monnet, Canada, 2015
The History of the Luiseño People James Luna, United States, 1993
Cosponsors
Presented by the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive and cosponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies.