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EXHIBITIONS + EVENTS CAlendar JUNE/JULY/AUGUST 2015


Embargo Project poster by graphic designer Sébastien Aubin.


Lars von Trier’s The Five Obstructions, the first Embargo Collective – presented in celebra- tion of imagineNATIVE’s 10th


anniversary AT THE MOVIES


AT THE MOVIES: THE EMBARGO PROJECT The Americas Film Festival of New York 2015 – Closing Night Friday, June 26 6 p.m. TAFFNY Awards Show Diker Pavilion


7 p.m. Screening Auditorium Reservations are strongly recommended: http://nmai.si.edu/explore/film-media/ or 212-514-3737.


U.S./New York Premiere. The Embargo Project (2015, 73 min.) Canada, Quebec (Ontario, British Columbia, Nunavut). In French, Eng- lish, Mohawk, Sami, Inuktitut. The Embargo Project is an anthology of five short films by Canadian Indigenous women. Participating in a collective process, each director created one film under restrictions imposed on them by their peers, to push each artist into new creative territory. Commissioned in celebra- tion of imagineNATIVE’s 15th


anniver-


sary, the short films invite viewers into new Indigenous cinematic landscapes. Based on


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in 2009 – was a landmark project in recent Indigenous cinema and was celebrated and screened internationally. These new works cross genres and themes as they collectively explore the spirit of filmmaking.


Roberta (9 min.) Caroline Monnet (Algon- quin). Housewife and grandmother Roberta struggles to fit the conformist society she lives in and turns to amphetamines to cure her boredom.


Skyworld (18 min.) Zoe Leigh Hopkins (Hei- ltsuk/Mohawk). A broken-hearted woman moves home to rebuild her life and give her young son roots through language and family.


Bihttos (Rebel) (14 min.) Elle-Maija Tailfeath- ers (Blackfoot/Sami). Bihttos is an uncon- ventional documentary that explores the complex relationship between a father and daughter.


Intemperance (10 min.) Lisa Jackson (Ojibwe). In 1850, George Copway was the first Indian to publish a history of his nation, the Ojibway. Intemperance is a satire that brings to life a morally complex story of his people living in changing times.


For additional information go to nmai. si.edu/home. Click on Calendar. Select New York and program date.


Aviliaq (Entwined) (15 min.) Alethea Arnaquq-Baril (Inuk). Set in a 1950s Inuit community, Aviliaq tells the story of two Inuit lesbians struggling to stay together in a new world run by outsiders.


At the Movies is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.


PHOTO COURTESY OF UNIKKAAT STUDIOS


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