INAATESE (2023)

INAATESE reimagines an ancient Ojibway story the Seven Fires Prophecy which both predates and predicts first contact with Europeans A kaleidoscopic experience blending documentary narrative and experimental forms INAATESE transcends linear colonized history to explore how the prophecy resonates through the generations in their indigenous community within Michigans Upper Peninsula With acute geographic specificity and grand historical scope the film fixes its lens between the sacred and the profane to pry open the construction of contemporary indigenous identity