“My film LOVE AND FURY highlights the work of many STTLMNT artists. My hope is that the film will provide some context to the artists and their work, in doing so it will help translate contemporary Native ideas and concepts to an international audience.” -Sterlin Harjo
A conversation on Love & Fury:
STTLMNT Indigenous concept artist Cannupa Hanska Luger sits down with Love & Fury film Director Sterlin Harjo to discuss what it was like for Harjo to create a film about contemporary Native American artists from across North America.
As part of STTLMNT Indigenous Digital Occupation, we are thrilled to share this vulnerable, vivid, layered, and candid conversation between Director Sterlin Harjo and artist Cannupa Hanska Luger on the making of Harjo’s film Love & Fury.
The conversation takes us into the beginning of Harjo’s relationship to Native art from childhood, through experiences within the Native art market with his peers and into Harjo’s experience in meeting up with Luger in Plymouth, UK to film. We also hear about Harjo’s poetic and visionary approach to the choices he made for Love & Fury’s aesthetic and storyline and Harjo talks about his upcoming exciting TV series with Taika Waititi, Reservation Dogs. Sterlin is an incredible storyteller and we are grateful to share his perspective with you here.
We hope you enjoy listening in to this conversation as much as we enjoyed having it. Below are both video and audio formats of the conversation. This is an uncensored conversation between the two artists and there is explicit language.
LOVE & FURY
A film by Sterlin Harjo
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
