Filmography
O'OTHAM RHAPSODE
Directed by D.A. Navoti
2023, 20 minutes
O'OTHAM RHAPSODE (2023), a multimedia exhibition in collaboration with Jack Straw Cultural Center, depicts the lives and homelands of the Akimel O’otham, whose ancestral lands—named the Gila River Indian Community—are located south of Phoenix, Arizona. The word O’otham translates to people, whereas the term rhapsode comes from Ancient Greece to describe an orator of epic poems. What orates these visual “poems”—a collection of three short videos—is atmospheric and symphonic music composed between 2022-2023.
OCTOBER HEADLINES
Directed by D.A. Navoti
2021, 5 minutes
OCTOBER HEADLINES (2021) exams controversial news headlines from Indigenous Peoples' Day and the personal stories impacted by them, inspired by D.A. Navoti's 2018 experimental essay of the same name, Read the original experimental essay published by Cloudthroat (defunct). This project was produced with support from NDN Collective.