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 In 1995, the film Smoke Signals opened at Sundance Film Festival, prompting a landslide of interest and support for Native American film and Chris Eyre, the first Native feature film director in the US. Beyond garnering accolades from native and general audiences, this film provided a stark contrast for filmgoers to the Indians seen in Hollywood Westerns. It raised the now obvious question: "What else have we been missing?" The answer: Quite a lot. In 1987, Sami director Nils Gaup had made Pathfinder, the first internationally circulated feature film by an indigenous director, also nominated for an Oscar. Since then, First Nations directors have continued to break barriers in the world film industry, winning prestigious recognition on the world stage. The work in this exhibition represents art from a host of First Nations communities, including Indigenous Australian, Inuit, Maori, Native North and South American, Nenet, Rotuman, and Sami. |
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