INAATE/SE/ It Shines a Certain Way to a Certain Place/It FliesFalls/

LA premiere!

Co-Director Adam Khalil and Executive Producer Steve Holmgren in attendance, along with filmmaker Eve-Lauryn Little Shell LaFountain and Maya Solis of Sundance’s Native American and Indigenous Program.

Related Program:

On April 28th, from 8-11pm, Night Gallery will host the Los Angeles launch of Issue 10 of The Third Rail, featuring Adam and Zack Khalil’s interview with filmmaker Sky Hopinka. There will be live music by Olga and Beat Detectives, video by Mati Diop & Manon Lutanie, Alexander Kluge, and Adam & Zack Khalil. www.nightgallery.ca

The ethnographic film tradition was part of the colonialist tradition.  Now (and for some time), new filmmakers, often from groups seen as the subjects being documented or collected in traditional films, are expressing their own voices and traditions in what some are calling “anti-ethnographic” films.  Filmforum is delighted to host three indigenous films leading this work, along with guest Maya Solis from the Sundance Institute for a post-screening discussion.

Adam and Zack Khalil’s new film re-imagines an ancient Ojibway story, the Seven Fires Prophecy, which both predates and predicts first contact with Europeans. A kaleidoscopic experience blending documentary, narrative, and experimental forms, INAATE/SE/ transcends linear colonized history to explore how the prophecy resonates through the generations in their indigenous community within Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. With acute geographic specificity, and grand historical scope, the film fixes its lens between the sacred and the profane to pry open the construction of contemporary indigenous identity. http://www.inaatese.com/trailer (69 mins)

INAATE/SE/ will be proceeded by Anishinabemowin Nagishkodaading by Eve-Lauryn Little Shell LaFountain as well as Sky Hopinka’s Jáaji Approx.

"An artful and brilliant collage, expressing hope, pain, despair, and the trickster humor that is so evocative of its people." -BOMB Magazine, http://bombmagazine.org/article/1985224/adam-zack-khalil

"Stylistically audacious" - The Hollywood Reporter

"Formally adventurous but never esoteric, INAATE/SE is an inimitable model for what radical documentary in the 21st century might be"-Screen Slate

Special thanks to Franny Alfano and Colin Beckett.

Tickets: $10 general admission; $6 students (with ID)/seniors; free for Filmforum members.

Tickets available at http://inaatese.bpt.me or at the door

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Adam and Zack Khalil  (Ojibway) are filmmakers and artists from Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan and currently based in Brooklyn, New York. Their work subverts traditional forms of ethnography through humor, transgression, and innovative documentary practice. Their films and installations have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, Maysles Cinema, UnionDocs, e-flux,  and Microscope Gallery (New York), Spektrum (Berlin), Trailer Gallery (Sweden), and Carnival of eCreativity (Bombay).They both graduated from the Film and Electronic Arts program at Bard College and are UnionDocs Collaborative Fellows and Gates Millennium Scholars.

Eve-Lauryn Little Shell LaFountain is a Los Angeles based multi-media artist. Her work explores feminism, and her mixed Turtle Mountain Chippewa and Jewish identity through lens based media and installations. Her work has shown in several venues and festivals including the Venice Biennale, the Walker Art Center, the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Los Angeles Filmforum, the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian in New York, and ImagineNATIVE FIlm + Media Festival. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Hampshire College in 2008, and a dual Master of Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts in Photography/Media and Film/Video in 2014. She teaches and curates at the Echo Park Film Center, and also works at the California Institute of the Arts. http://evelaurynlafountain.com/

Sky Hopinka is a Ho-Chunk Nation national and descendent of the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians. He was born and raised in Ferndale, Washington and spent a number of years in Palm Springs and Riverside, California, and Portland, Oregon and is currently based out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In Portland he studied and taught chinuk wawa, a language indigenous to the Lower Columbia River Basin. His work centers around personal positions of homeland and landscape, designs of language and the facets of culture contained within. He received his BA from Portland State University in Liberal Arts and his MFA in Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. http://www.skyhopinka.com/

Steve Holmgren specializes in business and legal affairs in the arts, with an emphasis in cinema and moving image work. His producing credits include Far From Afghanistan (an omnibus film organized by John Gianvito), The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye (Marie Losier), I Used to be Darker, and Putty Hill (Matthew Porterfield). From 2009-2014 he was the Programmer at UnionDocs, where he maintains a connection as Head of the Advisory Committee. He previously worked at film festivals including Sundance, Tribeca, Sound Unseen and the Robert Flaherty Seminar. He has also worked in production with HDNet Films and film sales with Cactus 3, as well as in institutional distribution with Gartenberg Media Enterprises. Holmgren has served on film juries at places like Oberhausen, Black Maria, and CPH PIX and contributed to granting organizations including IFP NY, Creative Capital and the Brooklyn Arts Council. A Minnesota native, he currently splits time in New York and California, where he is finishing his law degree at USC. www.steadyorbits.com

Maya Solis (Pascua Yaqui/Blackfeet) is a manager of Sundance Institute's Native American and Indigenous Film Program. Prior to joining Sundance Institute, she held archivist positions with the National NAGPRA Program, The Southern Ute Cultural Center & Museum, the Academy Film Archive, and the UCLA Cataloging and Metadata center. She received her B.A. and M.A. from the University of California Los Angeles. 

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