March 8th, 2015 Last Updated on: March 8th, 2015
In this short but powerful film by Jeffrey Palmer and Constance Squires they explore the lasting power of Geronimo’s name and image.
The distinction between his iconographic cultural presence and the life and death of the real man is explored in a young native artist’s visit to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, where she visits the Old Guardhouse where he was imprisoned, and his grave. Her efforts to reach the real man through real places result in a new painting, which she creates high on Medicine Bluff, suggesting that, in the final analysis, it is in iconic representation that Geronimo's spirit lives.
Grave Misgivings from Jeffrey Palmer on Vimeo.
Jeffrey Palmer is a Kiowa filmmaker and an alumni of the 2012 Sundance Institute NativeLab Fellowship. You can check out more of his work on his Vimeo channel: https://vimeo.com/user2833074/videos
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