Raven Chacon

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Hacking at Leaves
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Hacking at Leaves

Apr 06, 2024

Hacking at Leaves
2024 108 min 1 vues
Hacking at Leaves documents artist and hazmat-suit aficionado Johannes Grenzfurthner as he attempts to come to terms with the United States' colonial past, Navajo tribal history, and the hacker movement. The story hones in on a small tinker space in Durango, Colorado, that made significant contributions to worldwide COVID relief efforts. But things go awry when Uncle Sam interferes with the film's production.
Documentary
Three Songs
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Three Songs

Apr 06, 2022

Three Songs
2022 7 min 1 vues
In this series of three videos, American Indian women sing the history of a landscape, including its present, past, and future, where a conflict, displacement or massacre of their tribe took place. The songs reference the Navajo Long Walk, the Trail of Tears and resulting drownings in the Arkansas and Mississippi Rivers, and the removal of the Seminole people from their homelands. Chacon describes: “These songs of resistance, with only a snare drum as accompaniment, become a sonic testimony, an acknowledgement of shared survival, and a healing call in their mother tongues.”
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Love and Fury
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Love and Fury

Jun 12, 2020

Love and Fury
2020 93 min 1 vues
Filmmaker Sterlin Harjo follows Native artists for a year as they navigate their careers in the US and abroad. The film explores the immense complexities each artist faces concerning their own identity as Native artists, as well as pushing further Native art into a post-colonial world.
Documentary
Be'eldiildaahsinil (Abduction Song)
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Be'eldiildaahsinil (Abduction Song)

May 01, 2021

Be'eldiildaahsinil (Abduction Song)
2021 4 min 1 vues
"Abduction Song" follows an oral account in Diné language, relayed by Chacon’s grandfather, of family lineage resulting from a kidnapping of his great-grandmother from the Navajo homelands. While filming in restricted areas of the Albuquerque International Airport, the camera moves as though it is surveilling the site, creating a disjuncture in time, presenting a generations-old story of abduction while capturing the transit of people in present-day Albuquerque.
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Three Songs
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Three Songs

Apr 06, 2022

Three Songs
2022 7 min 1 vues
In this series of three videos, American Indian women sing the history of a landscape, including its present, past, and future, where a conflict, displacement or massacre of their tribe took place. The songs reference the Navajo Long Walk, the Trail of Tears and resulting drownings in the Arkansas and Mississippi Rivers, and the removal of the Seminole people from their homelands. Chacon describes: “These songs of resistance, with only a snare drum as accompaniment, become a sonic testimony, an acknowledgement of shared survival, and a healing call in their mother tongues.”
Documentary
Three Songs
1

Three Songs

Apr 06, 2022

Three Songs
2022 7 min 1 vues
In this series of three videos, American Indian women sing the history of a landscape, including its present, past, and future, where a conflict, displacement or massacre of their tribe took place. The songs reference the Navajo Long Walk, the Trail of Tears and resulting drownings in the Arkansas and Mississippi Rivers, and the removal of the Seminole people from their homelands. Chacon describes: “These songs of resistance, with only a snare drum as accompaniment, become a sonic testimony, an acknowledgement of shared survival, and a healing call in their mother tongues.”
Documentary
Three Songs
1

Three Songs

Apr 06, 2022

Three Songs
2022 7 min 1 vues
In this series of three videos, American Indian women sing the history of a landscape, including its present, past, and future, where a conflict, displacement or massacre of their tribe took place. The songs reference the Navajo Long Walk, the Trail of Tears and resulting drownings in the Arkansas and Mississippi Rivers, and the removal of the Seminole people from their homelands. Chacon describes: “These songs of resistance, with only a snare drum as accompaniment, become a sonic testimony, an acknowledgement of shared survival, and a healing call in their mother tongues.”
Documentary
Three Songs
1

Three Songs

Apr 06, 2022

Three Songs
2022 7 min 1 vues
In this series of three videos, American Indian women sing the history of a landscape, including its present, past, and future, where a conflict, displacement or massacre of their tribe took place. The songs reference the Navajo Long Walk, the Trail of Tears and resulting drownings in the Arkansas and Mississippi Rivers, and the removal of the Seminole people from their homelands. Chacon describes: “These songs of resistance, with only a snare drum as accompaniment, become a sonic testimony, an acknowledgement of shared survival, and a healing call in their mother tongues.”
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Report
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Report

Jan 01, 2015

Report
2015 4 min 1 vues
A musical composition where the instruments played are firearms. Here, tools of violence are transformed into mechanisms for musical resistance.
b.DREAMS
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b.DREAMS

Jan 01, 2009

b.DREAMS
2009 10 min 1 vues
Romance and comedy come together to paint a contemporary portrait of love on the Navajo Reservation.
Drama
A Song Often Played on the Radio
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A Song Often Played on the Radio

Oct 25, 2019

A Song Often Played on the Radio
2019 23 min 1 vues
In a search for the mythological Cities of Cibola, a horseman finds himself in a race against another rogue seeking the valuable metals of the New Mexican desert. Spurred by the justification of moralistic 'dichos', the rival explorers come to learn about what truly brought them to this land, understanding their true identities, and finding they were only stealing from themselves.
Western
A Song Often Played on the Radio
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A Song Often Played on the Radio

Oct 25, 2019

A Song Often Played on the Radio
2019 23 min 1 vues
In a search for the mythological Cities of Cibola, a horseman finds himself in a race against another rogue seeking the valuable metals of the New Mexican desert. Spurred by the justification of moralistic 'dichos', the rival explorers come to learn about what truly brought them to this land, understanding their true identities, and finding they were only stealing from themselves.
Western
Halpate
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Halpate

Oct 01, 2020

Halpate
2020 11 min 1 vues
Considered a staple of Florida tourism, alligator wrestling has been performed by members of the Seminole Tribe for over a century. As the practice has changed over the years, Halpate profiles the hazards and history of the spectacle through the words of the tribe's alligator wrestlers themselves and what it has meant to their people's survival.
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