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Ritual Clowns (1988) An exploration of the evolving yet enduring and universal role of the Hopi clown, who represents the critical and cathartic elements of Native American humor in Southwest tribal cultures. Selected Works Film Imagining Indians (1993)
Two Faces of One Room (1992) SISKYAVI The Place of Chasms (1991) Pot Starr (1990) Ritual Clowns (1988) Itam Hakim, Hopiit (1985) Hopiit (1982) Little Singer (1981) Hopi Traditions (1980) Accomplishments Guest Artist/Residencies: Millenium Photography Survey-Marion Center for the Arts, Santa Fe, NM, 1996-1997; Festival CineVideo de las Primeras Naciones Abya-Yala, Ecuador, 1994; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 1994; and Yamagata International Film Festival, Japan, 1993
Distinguished Filmmakers Award, Talking Picture Festival, Taos, NM, 1995 Maya Deren Award, American Film Institute, 1995 Ford Foundation Fellowship, 1976 Education Princeton University, Princeton, NJ News April, May, June 2008 Victor Masayesva, Jr.’s
Paatuwaqatsi —
Water, Land and Life had its world premiere as the opening
night film of the Talking
Stick Film Festival.
This lyrical documentary follows the pace of a 78–year old
man
and a 14-year old girl as they run on a 2,000 mile route to Mexico.
This work serves as a celebration of the message “Water Is
Life,"
carred through the ancient tradition of running. (Mexico) April 2006 Victor Masayesva, Jr. will speak about indigenous audiovisual media in the
United States at the
Image Roots Film and Video Festival of Indigenous Peoples in Oaxaca, Mexico
in June. Mexico May - June 2005 Victor Masayesva, Jr. screened two films at MOMA in New York in May: Ritual
Clowns, an experimental video exploring the evolving yet enduring and universal
role of the Hopi clown, and Itam Hakim, Hopiit, a poetic visualization of Hopi
philosophy in which an elder interweaves personal and cultural history to
recount famous Hopi events. |
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