Lydia Moyer
reverse cimarron (still)
2009
single channel video
6min 14sec
A reflection on the survival and persistence of the Lakota people as well as the relationship between white and Native Americans. The title refers to a Western, made in 1931, from which the footage of the Oklahoma land rush is appropriated and run backward in a kind of unsettling of the West. The original Cimarron is noted for it's stereotypical portrayals of Native Americans.

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