BAMPFA Indigenous Film Series Events: what was always yours and never lost
Presented by BERKELEY ART MUSEUM & PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE. Co-sponsored by BCNM.
This series is organized by Kathy Geritz and Natalia Brizuela and presented in conjunction with the UC Berkeley course Indigenous Arts in the Americas: Old and New Media, taught by Julia Bryan-Wilson, Natalia Brizuela, and Beth Piatote. The film programs and guests are made possible with support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
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indirectly with Indigeneity: assertions of identity and presence in the face of—and regardless of—colonial history and outdated traditions of anthropology, ethnography, and representation.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.
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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
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