NATIVe - Indigenous Cinema

Skin

Supporting film: A Mother's Dream

Mon, Feb 11, 2013
2 pm
Admission: 9 €

A Mother's Dream

D: Cherilyn Papatie

Canada 2007, 7 min, English subtitles

The state allows a mother only a few precious hours with her children at a fairground somewhere in Canada. These children are not allowed to live at their real home. Carousel rides and shining faces belie tears in quiet unobserved moments, as the wrenching farewell looms. A personal insight into the issue of the 'Stolen Generations'.


Skins

D: Chris Eyre

USA 2002, 87 min, English OV

Although there were cheaper and easier alternatives for the location of this film, director Chris Eyre insisted on filming at the historical site of the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre, one of the most brutal military actions against Native Americans in US history. Skins is suffused with the history and contemporary reality of its location at Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Today, Pine Ridge is a poor reservation with widespread unemployment, characterised by alcoholism, domestic violence and general malaise. This is the backdrop for Eyre’s protagonist Rudy, a tribal cop. Determined to do more than merely fight the symptoms, he embarks on a campaign of vengeance in the name of Native American justice, leading to an unusual encounter with one of the Founding Fathers.