Critical Writing Index

Dreaming With Eyes Open: The First Nation's Dreamspeakers Festival

by Sally Berger

The Independent, Jan. 1993, v. 16, no. 1, pp. 16-21

This article documents the first Dreamspeakers Festival, organized by and for indigenous peoples to further First Nations media-making. Further explored are the politics of screening work about native peoples and the film and video works that were shown during the festival.

ITEM 1993.035 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Imagining Indians – Victor Masayesva

Starting Fire with Gunpowder – David Poisey and David Hansen

Heartland – Greg Coyes

Richard Cardinal: Cry of a Metis Boy – Alanis Obomsawin

Wiping the Tears of Seven Generations – Fidel Moreno and Gary Rhine

Peyote Road – Fidel Moreno

Tent Embassy – Frances Peters

Jindallee Lady – Brian Syron

Ngati – Barry Barclay

Te Rua – Barry Barclay

Incident at Oglala – Michael Apted

Navaho Talking Pictures – Arlene Bowman

Nightcries – Tracey Moffat

The Man from Island West – Huang Mingchuan

Women in the Shadows – Christine Welsh