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A series launched each summer at the George Gustav Heye Center
in New York, At the Movies showcases Native actors, director,
producers, and writers, with a focus on fiction and feature films.
FEATURED WORKS
Schedule of Screenings
Thursday, May 2 and Saturday, 4 - Eye
on Zach Kunuk
Thursday, May 2, 6:00 - 9:00 pm
Auditorium
Atanarjuat/The Fast
Runner
Saturday, May 4, 2:00 - 5:00 pm
Auditorium
ZACH KUNUK: A RETROSPECTIVE
Qaggiq/Gathering Place
Nunaqpa/Going Inland
Saputi/Fish Trap
Angiraq/Home
Friday, September 20 - Chris Eyre: Skins
6:00 - 8:00 pm
Auditorium
NY PREMIERE: Skins.
The latest feature film from the director of the highly acclaimed
Smoke Signals.
Discussion will follow the screening with the director and
lead actors.
8:00 pm
Auditorium Lobby
Book Signing: A program of At the Movies.
Photographer Gwendolen Cates will sign her book, Indian Country
(Grove Press: 2001). Acclaimed photographs of Native leaders,
artists, filmmakers and families.
Thursday, September 26 and Saturday,
September 28
Thursday, September 26, 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Auditorium
The Silent Enemy
8:00 pm
Auditorium Lobby
Book Signing: A program of At the Movies.
Author Bunny McBride will sign her book, Molly Spotted Elk
(University of Oklahoma Press, 1995). A vivid biography of a
Penobscot actress/entertainer of the 1930's.
Saturday, September 28, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Auditorium
The Silent Enemy
The program opens with Abnaki:
The Native People of Maine
Thursday, October 17
Aboriginal Views: Indigenous Films from Australia
At the Movies salutes two works by award-winning
Aboriginal filmmakers from Australia. An NMAI premiere screening
of Australian Aboriginal cinema.
Thursday, October 17, 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Auditorium
Confessions
of a Headhunter
and
One Night the
Moon
Q&A with directors, Sally Riley and Rachel Perkins to follow
the screenings.
Presented in cooperation with the Asia Society
and Crossing Tracks, a festival of award-winning
Aboriginal works from Australia. Crossing Tracks, October
18 - 20, has been curated by Sally Riley in conjunction
with the exhibition The Native Born: Contemporary Aboriginal
Art. For further information go to: www.asiasociety.org/arts/indigenous.html
For further information and reservations call (212) 514-3737
or email FVC@si.edu
Acknowledgments
At the Movies is made possible with funds from
the New York State Council on the Arts. Thanks for support from
First Look Media Distribution Company, Lot47 Distribution Company
and the Australian Film Commission.
Image credit: Atanarjuat
(Natar Ungalaaq) and his brother Amaqjuaq (Pakkak Inukshuk) share
a joke. - Photograph courtesy of Norman Cohn
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