Presenting the work of indigenous media makers—directors, producers, actors, musicians, writers, and cultural activists—At the Movies is screened with invited filmmakers and other speakers.

AT THE MOVIES is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency.

THE DOUBLE ENTENDRE OF RE-ENACTMENT
An Interactive Program with Gerald McMaster

November 20, 2008 at 6:00 pm
Auditorium, George Gustav Heye Center, One Bowling Green, New York, NY 10004. Enter here for directions.

Curator Gerald McMaster (Cree) offers fresh insights in this subversive and often humorous look at Native participation in historical reenactment—from its roots in 19th-century Wild West shows and early 20th-century film to the work of today's Native media artists currently reinterpreting reenactment as a means of artistic defiance. This talk , curated by Gerald McMaster, was commissioned by the imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival in Toronto & Vtape, with a catalogue published by Vtape. To download a PDF of the catalog, enter here. Provided courtesy of imagineNATIVE and Vtape, the key distributor of independent media arts and First Nations production in Canada.

Works discussed include:

Nunavut (1995, 28 min., d. Zacharias Kunuk (Inuit), Canada)
The Last Great Hunt (2006, 6 min., d. Shonie De La Rosa (Navajo), U.S.)
Shooting Geronimo (2007, 11 min., d. Kent Monkman (Cree), Canada)
4-Wheel War Pony (2008, 8 min., d. Dustinn Craig (White Mountain Apache/Navajo), U.S.)

And brief selections from:

In the Land of the War Canoes (1912., d. Edward S. Curtis, U.S.)
Nanook of the North (1922, d. Robert Flaherty, U.S./France)
Winnetou (1965, d. Harald Reini, West Germany/Yugoslavia/Italy)
The Shadow Catcher (1974, d.Teri C. McLuhan, U.S.)

Gerald McMaster (Plains Cree and member of the Siksika Nation) is the Curator of Canadian Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto.

Presented in cooperation with New York University's Program in Media, Culture and History. Support has been provided by the New York State Council on the Arts, a State agency.

Uniquely Kahnawake

Club Native and
Little Caughnawaga: To Brooklyn and Back
Discussion follows with directors and Audra Simpson (Mohawk), Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University.

Thursday, November 6 at 6:00 pm

Saturday, November 8 at 1:00 pm

Screenings are held in the Auditorium of the George Gustav Heye Center. For directions, enter here. Admission to all screenings is free.

"The Last Conquistador" The Last Conquistador

This program is a co-presentation with P.O.V./The American Documentary and the American Indian Community House.

Thursday, September 18, 6:00 pm
Discussion follows with the directors.
For more information about P.O.V. go to www.pov.org.

March Point

"March Point" Discussion follows with the directors.

Thursday, July 10, 6:00 pm
Saturday, July 12, 2:00 pm

Screenings are held in the Auditorium of the George Gustav Heye Center. For directions, enter here. Admission to all screenings is free.

Best of the Sámi Film Festival

With host Lars Ailo Gaup (Sámi), Beaivváš Sámi Theater.

Now in its 12th year, the Sámi Film Festival, in Guovdageaidnu, Norway, in the Arctic Circle, celebrates indigenous film at the world's first ice cinema drive-in. NMAI is pleased to present award-winning Sámi films from the past two festivals, with stories that evoke the past and illuminate the contemporary lives of the indigenous people of far northern Europe, in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. Invited filmmakers will introduce their work.

Ándagassii/Forgiveness, Calmmis Calbmái/From an Eye to an Eye, Eallonissonat/Herdswoman, Ja, Lihkastagat Gitta Doložis/And, Movements from the Past, Last Yoik in Sámi Forests?, and The Wind Whispers There Is Someone Behind the Tundra

Thursday, June 26 at 6:30 pm at Scandinavia House
58 Park Avenue (between 37th and 38th Streets), New York City
Tickets: $8 ($6 ASF & NMAI members)
Saturday, June 28 at 2:00 pm at NMAI GGHC Auditorium
For directions, enter here.
Screening is free to the public. For reservations call 212-514-3737 or e-mail FVC@si.edu.

This program is sponsored in part by the Andrew E. and G. Norman Wigeland Fund of The American-Scandinavian Foundation and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.