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Title: Introduction to Native American/Indigenous Film (Essay)
Author : Post Script
Release Date : January 22, 2010
Genre: Business & Personal Finance,Books,
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I watched academics, some of them Indians, contort their psyches in ways that would make an acrobat wince, racing to establish a Native aesthetic, often to the exclusion of what they saw with their own eyes.... Only by looking at a large body of work and with the benefit of hindsight can you begin to untangle the myriad themes, patterns, politics, subtext, metaphors and informal elements that run through the films of even a single filmmaker, much less a globe full of them. And even then, half the time the maker will be surprised by your conclusions.... Why jump to conclusions? Let Native Cinema come to term. Why give it a c-section?--Randy Redroad (Cherokee) 2009 (1) A native filmmaker has ... the accountability built into him. The white man doesn't have that. That's the single big distinction. Accountability as an individual, as a clan, as a tribal, as a family member. That's where we're at as Indian filmmakers. We want to start participating [in] and developing an Indian aesthetic. And there is such a thing as an Indian aesthetic, and it begins in the sacred.--Victor Masayesva, Jr. (Hopi) 1991 (2)