The National Museum of the American Indian presented Tribeca All Access 2006 alumnus Sterlin Harjo’s Four Sheets to the Wind on Thursday, July 12 and Saturday, July 14.
National Museum of the American Indian presents:
Four Sheets to the Wind
Four Sheets to the Wind (2006, 91 min.)
Director: Sterlin Harjo (Seminole/Creek). Producer: Chad Burris (Chickasaw). Discuss follows with the director, winner of the 2006 Tribeca All Access Creative Promise Award (Narrative Section), and the producer.
When Cufe Smallhill (Cody Lightning) finds his father dead beside a bottle of pills, he fulfills his promise to sink the body in the family pond. A fake funeral, held for the community, brings together a family that has drifted apart. Wondering if there is more to life than what’s on offer in his small home town, Cufe heads for the big city of Tulsa with his sister Miri (Tamara Podemski).
Saturday’s program was preceded by Indigenous Eye/Short Films, works by recent Renew Media Fellows: Nanobah Becker (Navajo), Dante Cerano (P’urhepecha), Pedro Daniel Lopez (Tzotzil), and Larry Blackhorse Lowe (Navajo).
