PPT Slide
“Imagining Indians”, Victor Masayesva, Hopi filmmaker
“By expressing our tribal voices, we would be expounding the indigenous aesthetic.” pg. 20
- Some aspects of oral tradition including dance, song, ritual, ceremony, worship; performance; storytelling which is socially redemptive; spirituality
- Technical conventions of filmmaking would shift, “using a 360 pan rather than complicated camera moves”
- Narratives which construct times and spaces differently
- Transitions: “Masayesva’s aesthetic treatment of sensitivity toward Hopi life is woven into the film through the use of meaningful transitions” (pg. 21, 23)