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13 mar 2020 · Today, Palmer (12MFA) is carrying on the Kiowa's storytelling tradition. A documentary maker and assistant professor in performing and media arts at Cornell University, Palmer presented his first feature-length film, N. Scott Momaday: Words from a Bear, at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. The documentary, which was commissioned by PBS's ...
29 dic 2018 · The latest Tweets from WordsfromaBear (@WordsfromaBear). "Words from a Bear" to premiere at Sundance 2019, exploring the life of the 1969 winner of the Pulitizer Prize for Fiction N. Scott Momaday.
Words from a Bear examines the enigmatic life and mind of Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Navarro Scott Momaday, one of Native America’s most celebrated authors of poetry and prose. The film visually captures the essence of Momaday’s writings, relating each written line to his unique American experience representing ancestry, place, and oral history.
“They came from nothing into sound and meaning.” This statement, uttered by the self-proclaimed “Priest of the Sun” John Big Bluff Tosamah in Navarre Scott Momaday’s Pulitzer-Prize winning novel House Made of Dawn (1968), suggests the way that words, like medicine, can heal broken spirits and bring into being a more centered sense of selfhood.
AMERICAN MASTERS FILM. N. Scott Momaday: Words From a Bear (Nov 2019)Directed by Jeffrey Palmer.
N. Scott Momaday: Words From a Bear. 29s. Delve into the enigmatic life and mind of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and poet N. Scott Momaday, best known for “House Made of Dawn” and a formative voice of the Native American Renaissance in art and literature. Previews + Extras.
Available on Prime Video, iTunes, PBS Living. When N. Scott Momaday won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize, it marked one of the first major acknowledgments of Native American literature and culture. Now, Momaday's words come to life in this biography of a celebrated Native American storyteller. Documentary 2019 1 hr 25 min.
