New Documentary Remembers Standing Rock in Beauty and Catastrophe

[turbinetree]

n October of 2016, I wrote a piece called "How to Talk About #NoDAPL: A Native Perspective." I had visited the Standing Rock camps twice at that point, at the request of local youth who coordinated skill shares for Water Protectors, and I had written extensively about the movement. About a year later, I was asked to share my thoughts on the documentary, Awake, A Dream from Standing Rock.

But how does one critique a dream? A dream isn't bound by timelines or historical nuance. It's as much feeling as fact, and the lines between the two often blur.

As the name implies, Awake, A Dream of Standing Rock, is a series of images and reflections, unbound by the conventions of documentary storytelling. The film's dream-weaving approach at times works masterfully, capturing sounds and images that should be preserved in crisp, heartbreaking detail. In other moments, the film veers between the poetic and the historic with such ease that I was left wondering whether some viewers would know the difference.

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/42363-new-documentary-remembers-standing-rock-in-beauty-and-catastrophe


Wado------------thank you

[SamKnause]

1. I didn't see the release date at the link.

Do you know when and where to see it ???