Movies: Raven Chacon
- 2024
Hacking at Leaves (2024)
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Hacking at Leaves documents artist and hazmat-suit aficionado Johannes Grenzfurthner as he attempts to come to terms with the United States' colonial past, Navajo tribal history, and the hacker movement. The story hones in on a small tinker space in ...
- 2020
Love and Fury (2020)
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Filmmaker Sterlin Harjo follows Native artists for a year as they navigate their careers in the US and abroad. The film explores the immense complexities each artist faces concerning their own identity as Native artists, as well as pushing further Na...
- 2021
Be'eldiildaahsinil (Abduction Song) (2021)
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"Abduction Song" follows an oral account in Diné language, relayed by Chacon’s grandfather, of family lineage resulting from a kidnapping of his great-grandmother from the Navajo homelands. While filming in restricted areas of the Albuquerque Intern...
- 2020
Halpate (2020)
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Considered a staple of Florida tourism, alligator wrestling has been performed by members of the Seminole Tribe for over a century. As the practice has changed over the years, Halpate profiles the hazards and history of the spectacle through the word...
- 2009
b.DREAMS (2009)
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Romance and comedy come together to paint a contemporary portrait of love on the Navajo Reservation....
- 2015
Report (2015)
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A musical composition where the instruments played are firearms. Here, tools of violence are transformed into mechanisms for musical resistance....
- 2019
A Song Often Played on the Radio (2019)
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In a search for the mythological Cities of Cibola, a horseman finds himself in a race against another rogue seeking the valuable metals of the New Mexican desert. Spurred by the justification of moralistic 'dichos', the rival explorers come to learn ...
- 2022
Three Songs (2022)
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In this series of three videos, American Indian women sing the history of a landscape, including its present, past, and future, where a conflict, displacement or massacre of their tribe took place. The songs reference the Navajo Long Walk, the Trail ...
- 2023
The Decline of Southwestern Civilization Pt. 1 (2023)
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This Albuquerque music documentary was filmed during the Summer and Fall of 2022 and captures a sample of bands, venues, characters, and history that make up the DIY scene. Featuring Los Mocos, Cracks in the Sidewalk, Nomestomper, Crushed!?, Saberto...