Please come for this final evening of films at Monroe Community College for Rochester’s first Native American Film Festival
Tuesday April 8, 2008
Film Presentation: An Exploration of American Indian Identity
6:30 p.m. in the R. Thomas Flynn Campus Center, Monroe A and B,
· Apples and Indians. 2006 Loren Olsen (metis), 5 mins. The filmmaker playfully riffs on his ethnicity and identity.
· Half of Anything. 2006. Jonathon S. Tomhave (Hidatsa/Hocak/Potawatomi), 24 mins. Responding to the question “What is a real Indian” four interview subjects—including John Trudell and Sherman Alexie—share their various perspectives.
· Conversion. 2006, Nanobah Becker (Navajo), 8 mins. Christian missionaries disrupt a community on the Navajo reservation by compelling a medicine man to throw away his medicine bag, causing him to get sick. In spite of his subsequent death, his granddaughter remains transfixed with the image of Christ on a bible card.
An Evening with Pulitzer Prize winning author, N. Scott Momaday: The Crisis of Identity Facing Native Americans and Indigenous People
7:30 p.m. in the Theater
· Referred to as “the dean of American Indian writers” by New York Times, Scott Momaday holds an important place in the American literary arts. A poetry, playwright, essayist, and novelist, Momaday crafts in language and imagery—majestic landscapes of a second culture. Momaday was the first Native American to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel, House Made of Dawn. His brilliant use of language has garnered him countless awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship, The Autry Museum of Western Heritage Humanities Prize, a price from the Academy of American Poets and the “Mondello,” Italy’s highest literary honor. Book signing immediately following: Admission $10 to general public. Tickets available at "https://owa.monroecc.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.monroecctickets.com/" \nwww.monroecctickets.com or by calling 585.292.2534
Janet Ekis
College and Community Relations
04/07/2008 |