I investigate the big city Stockholm from my perspective and in a sami way. I conduct the investigation with the purpose to learn new words. What do you call a skyscraper or a shopwindow or the concrete. How do you say: I am walking here on the pedestr
This film is about rebirth - a young man coming to grips with his past and trying to change the future. This film takes place mostly in his jail cell as he burns Indian medicine for strength. While the medicine burns and smoke comes up from a wooden smudge bowl he reflects on his past.… Uqalimakkanirit
Su Naa is a journey of resolve on an emotional landscape of grief. A sister tries to resolve her guilt in order to recover the happiness of the last night shared with her brother before he is killed in a tragic accident. The audience is taken through this journey of resolve on an emotional landscape of grief.
A young girl leads her father through his dark depression. Premiered at Sundance Film Festival. Nominated for best live short at the American Indian Film Festival. Shot in Six Nations, Ontario.
The equal sequel. Man from Venus (super 8, 4 min, 1998) meets Mars Womb-Man. She's an answer without a question and he a question without answer. A sustainable foreground emerges only when they forge paths. A motion portrait where opposites distract and the peripheral rule is born.
"Wagon Burner" examines what happens when a boy reclaims his identity through the simple act of destruction. The boy burns his wagon and dances to put out the flames. Music is done by Isho Bailey. Houle's images tell a story older than colonization: the power of resistance and rememberance.
Slick and sexy, with a coffee in one hand and a cell phone in the other. It's time to meet the Metrosexual Indian. A short film about what it is to be an "Indian" in the 21 century.
Sometimes there are true stories that you don't want to believe. Based on a true story from the city every Canadian loves to hate, "Pookums" is the re-telling of a dog sitting gone wrong. Sometimes all you can say is, well, I guess that's what life is like in the big city.
This film is set in the contemporary landscape and interweaves past and future issues that impact nature, self determination, and sovereignty. Uranium Womyn 238 is a 'hyper-animated-hybrid' character based in a warrior-clown archetype conceptualized while in a desert mountain region of Utah.
From Cherry English is a surrealist Mi'gMac allegory about the loss of language and identity to the anonymity of urban wasteland. Traylor, a Mi'gMac man being pulled between two worlds meets a non-native woman who sends him on a hallucinogenic journey of masochism, and self discovery. The film explores the relationship that Traylor has with his language, culture, and past.
