'Indigenous America Asks Questions about U.S. Green Policies'

A film about the pan-indigenous movement.

Scene from Robert Lundahl's new film: 'Indigenous America Asks Questions about U.S. Green Policies'

(SOLANA BEACH, Calif.) - It is with gratitude that I share with you the latest documentary short film production from RL | A, "Indigenous America Asks Questions about U.S. Green Policies." As many of you are aware RL | A is in production with a feature documentary film entitled, "Who Are My People." The story is about tracing the remnants of Aztec Culture in the California deserts before those deserts can be destroyed by industrialization. The release of "Who Are My People" is scheduled for 2012.

This short film, "a film within a film," tells a story, and the story here involves the Peace and Dignity movement, "Journadas de Paz y Dignidad," a pan-indigenous movement of the Americas, uniting native peoples from Alaska, Canada, Mexico and the United States, Central and South America. Here, Paz y Dignidad supporters and the La Cuna de Aztlan Sacred Sites Protection Circle work together to oppose large solar development proposed by Solar Millennium LLC for Blythe, California. Over 200 plants are in application for the Mojave. Blythe Solar alone is 9500 acres and is sited on a culturally sensitive area containing scores of ancient geoglyphs. Additionally, U.C. Riverside botanist, Dr. James Andre, Ph.D., has speculated that construction of all projects in application could lead to massive extinctions and ecosystem collapse.

The event itself was billed as the TEOTIHUACAN ENERGIA ALIGNEMENT; Sacred Land Confrencia.

As an independent artist, my work expresses my interests and ideas. Despite the political subject matter of many of my films, I am not interested in politics, per se. I am interested in tradition, in heritage, and in indigenous cultures, and how those cultures express themselves in today's world.

As Jean Luc Goddard declared, "The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn't."

Ponder the indigenous renaissance, consider what it means to be "green." Ask yourself what is "renewable," and enjoy the film. Click this link to view: http://www.vimeo.com/27923650

Robert Lundahl is a Producer/Director based in Solana Beach, CA. (www.studio-rla.com)

For more films by Robert Lundahl visit: http://www.vimeo.com/user1982946/videos, or http://www.youtube.com/robertlundahlfilms

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Mark August 20, 2011 6:54 am (Pacific time)

I'm an indigenous person from planet earth.

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