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Navajo Talking Picture

1985-01-01
5
en 40m
Documentary
Film student Arlene Bowman (Navajo) travels to the Reservation to document the traditional ways of her grandmother. The filmmaking persists in spite of her grandmother's forceful objections to this invasion of her privacy. Ultimately, what emerges is a work which abruptly calls into question issues of "insider/outsider" status in a portrait of an assimilated Navajo struggling to use a "white man's" medium to capture the remnants of her cultural past.

Director

Arlene Bowman

Producer

Arlene Bowman

Camera Operator

Arlene Bowman

Editor

Arlene Bowman

Camera Operator

James Mulryan

Editor

James Mulryan

Status

Released

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