Bring Them Home

Saturday, September 20th, 3pm
Memorial Hall Main Theater
Total Runtime: 103m 12s

Monument dir. Jeremy Drummond (short film)
Bring Them Home dir. Ivan MacDonald, Ivy MacDonald, Daniel Glick

Part two of Cindependent's Saturday features: Academy Award nominee Lily Gladstone narrates this documentary about a group of Blackfoot people trying to establish a wild buffalo herd on ancestral land.

Monument

Abstract artwork combining a classical sculpture of a man's head with a yellow beak, layered with digital glitches and distorted colors, creating a surreal, collage-like image.

Directed by: Jeremy Drummond

Beginning in ghostly abstraction and accumulating texture by texture into a droning meditative trance, Monument deepens to a visual and sonic intensity, mixing Super 8 film with video footage to create a complicated, multilayered encounter with the tension of protest and reclamation. A vivid and energetic durational experience of collective resistance and celebration.

Runtime: 17:24

Person wearing a cowboy hat and jeans standing in a grassy field with a herd of bison in the background under a partly cloudy sky.

Bring Them Home

Directed by: Ivan MacDonald, Ivy MacDonald, Daniel Glick

Bring Them Home tells the story of a small group of Blackfoot people and their mission to establish the first wild buffalo herd on their ancestral territory since the species’ near-extinction a century ago, an act that would restore the land, re-enliven traditional culture and bring much needed healing to their community.

Runtime: 85:48