19 year old Bert sits in the shade of a tree in Yo Park. Cassandra Warrior feeds her daughter Diamond Rose. Daniel Runs Close sweats under the sun at Wounded Knee Memorial site. Kassel Sky Little puts his boots on at the Waters Rodeo. Vanessa Piper is alone in the middle of Badlands. Lance Red Cloud hangs out behind the gas station at night. It is summer and they all live here, at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, USA.
Cinematography
Badlands footage that makes poverty look like poetry.
Direction
Eborn's patient observation, never exploitative.
Director
Anna Eborn
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pine Ridge is one of the poorest counties in America and the site of the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre—yet Eborn refuses the trauma-tourism approach typical of films about the rez.
The film was shot over three summers with no traditional interviews, creating what Eborn called 'a fiction of the real'—blurring documentary ethics beautifully.
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