STTLMNT Indigenous concept artist Cannupa Hanska Luger sits down with Love & Fury Director Sterlin Harjo to discuss what it was like for Harjo to create a film about contemporary Native American artists from across North America.

• This is the premiere of a prerecorded Zoom conversation on the making of Love & Fury, published on the Love & Fury project page as part of STTLMNT Digital Occupation.

About Love & Fury:

Filmmaker Sterlin Harjo follows Native artists as they navigate their careers in the US and abroad. The film explores the immense complexities each artist faces of their own identity as Native artists, as well as, advancing Native art into a post-colonial world.

DIRECTORS NOTE: The film is a conversation that I’ve wanted to have for a long time. Native art has been shackled to history by a false vision of what Native people are through the settler gaze of our current reality. I wanted to make something bold and in your face, directly putting up a finger to the shackles of the art world and historic representation of our people. We are diverse, we are dark, we are beautiful and so is our artwork.

We are human beings. 

DIRECTOR  - Sterlin Harjo 

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER - Robin Ballenger  

RUNTIME- 93 minutes