I was GOING to ask all Netflix users who read this post to request "Honey Moccasin," a film by Shelly Niro (somewhere back in this blog is an account of me arranging for my class to meet her), except I can't find the place to ask for films anymore. Has it been removed? Was it never there? Did I request it before by just emailing them? I think there was an ask-for form - does anyone know where it is now?
Also "Anijam" which might be good. Anyone seen it?
From www.wmm.com:
Honey Moccasin
A film by Shelley Niro Canada, 1998, 47 minutes, Color, VHS/16mm/DVD
Order No. W99605
Order No. W99605
This all-Native production, by director Shelley Niro (Mohawk), is part of the Smoke Signals new wave of films that examine Native identity in the 1990’s. Set on the Grand Pine Indian Reservation, aka “Reservation X”, HONEY MOCCASIN combines elements of melodrama, performance art, cable access, and ‘whodunit’ to question conventions of ethnic and sexual identity as well as film narrative. A comedy/thriller complete with a fashion show and torchy musical numbers, this witty film employs a surreal pastiche of styles to depict the rivalry between bars The Smokin’ Moccasin and The Inukshuk Cafe, the saga of closeted drag queen/powwow clothing thief Zachary John, and the travails of crusading investigator Honey Moccasin. This irreverent reappropriation of familiar narrative strategies serves as a provocative spring-board for an investigation of authenticity, cultural identity, and the articulation of modern Native American experience in cinematic language and pop culture.
From www.imdb.com:
Anijam (1984)
Marv Newland
10 min
The bizarre adventures of the cartoon character Foska, drawn by 22 animators working in collaboration. Each animator worked on his or her own sequence only, and did not know what action preceded or followed his or her sequence, except that the first drawing of a sequence is the last drawing from the previous sequence.
From www.imdb.com:
Anijam (1984)
Marv Newland
10 min
The bizarre adventures of the cartoon character Foska, drawn by 22 animators working in collaboration. Each animator worked on his or her own sequence only, and did not know what action preceded or followed his or her sequence, except that the first drawing of a sequence is the last drawing from the previous sequence.
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