Empty Metal + Short Films
- This is a past program
Part of the UCLA Film & Television Archive screening series Imagining Indigenous Cinema: New Voices, New Visions. Register at cinema.ucla.edu/events to attend this in-theater screening.
Empty Metal (2018)
Empty Metal is a politically charged film that uses an interchanging narrative that follows the story of five activist groups who aim to start a revolution against the U.S. government. The underground punk scene shapes the film's style, and the central themes explore mass surveillance, oppression and morality. With its tense and captivating atmosphere, it blends faux-documentary and experimental techniques to offer a striking commentary on current politics that will make you reevaluate what you think you know.
Mayfly (2022)
A female scientist of Indigenous descent creates new life using artificial intelligence in a quest for freedom and maternal resolution.
9 min.
Pō'ele Wai (2022)
A young Indigenous weaver discovers she's being poisoned by the polluted waters she works in and goes through a transformative experience that reflects the interconnectedness of the land and water.
19 min.
Fluid Bound (2021)
An animated short that explores the complex relationships and battles between body and souls through the lens of Two-Spirit, Mestizo identity.
8 min.
New Myth (2021)
New Myth is a documentation of a performative action to repair our future relationship to water, exploring the concept of "Monster Slayers" and the agency we have to combat the oppressive systems of our present day.
6 min.
Winyan Yamni / Three Dreams (2021)
This short film explores the Lakota filmic gaze through the dreaming methodologies of the Double Woman, a mythic figure who empowers women to bead and was credited with the discovery of quillwork.
14 min.
CYANOVISIONS (2020)
CYANOVISIONS is a transdisciplinary speculative short fiction film that explores the relationship between humans and cyanobacteria in symbiotic scenarios of the future.
14 min.
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