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Lily Gladstone as Jax Fancy Dance (2023), directed by Erica Tremblay

#lily gladstone #fancy dance #lgladstoneedit #filmedit #filmgifs #filmtv #directed by women #*#thank you erica you are my god #please support this movie in theaters or on apple tv+!#it's really good!#my mom gave it two thumbs up

save me lily gladstone save me

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Fancy Dance (2023) dir. Erica Tremblay

#girls who like girls #lgbtq #girls who love girls #wlw #fancy dance #lily gladstone #Crystyle Lightning #lesbian

reblogging again about Big Eden made me think about some of the native american/canadian queer cinema (Indigiqueer Cinema) I've enjoyed.

Found a handy dandy Letterboxd List called Queer Native Pride and Beyond that has a whole bunch of movies I haven't seen yet, and below some of the ones I've gotten to experience (three out of four are linked):

Big Eden: a story about a gay man who returns home, because his grandfather gets sick. A sweet, beautiful man (played by Eric Schweig) starts to secretly make him food to help out. it's an amazing slice-of-life/subtly utopian bit of film-making, in that nobody in the town is homophobic, but being gay/shame is still a big part of the exploration within it.

Wildhood: a movie I got to watch at a film festival (always good to go to your local queer film festivals, many surprises to be had) and it blew me away. a roadtrip movie about two brothers who escape their abusive father to reconnect with the elder's mother and Mi'kmaq heritage. letting go of the instilled shame of being indigenous goes hand in hand with letting go of the instilled shame of being queer

Fancy Dance: this movie isn't about being queer, it's about the ongoing murder of indigenous woman and girls, and it's also a beautiful road trip film between an aunt and her niece, the former of whom is sure her sister is dead but unwilling to face it and to destroy her niece's innocence. Lily Gladstone plays the lead, who's also a lesbian, which is just a choice that works really well for the movie even if it's not the focal point (available on Apple+ TV and however you access movies, but would recommend throwing this one some views if you have access to official streaming)

Honey Moccasin: a 1998 movie i watched at another film festival (this time online), it's anarchic, it's a comedy, it's a thriller, it's got musical beats, it weaves in the intricacies of exploring Native identity and Queer identity, it's a surreal story about a few things, one of which include focus on a "closeted drag queen." it's a movie that beats against conventional film-making to create something not beholden to tropes and clichés forced upon narratives about being Native

#indigiqueer #queer cinema #indigiqueer cinema #big eden is interesting in the sense of wondering where it sits in esteem with native american communities #as it's not made/directed with a focus in mind to represent native american lives so much as the casting of eric schweig was #from the sounds of it very deliberate and He brought a weight to his role that was respected and wanted #but would it be considered indigiqueer by everyone (*everyone* is a weighted term tho also)#i do think it's different to say the miseducation of cameron post which is an ensemble piece that centres a white girl #in which one of the other characters is lakota #anyway i should look up how people talk about big eden #big eden #wildhood #fancy dance #honey moccasin

FANCY DANCE 2023 dir. Erica Tremblay

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One of the pow wow dancers had the best handkerchief 🪶

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Next up, we have our annual Missing and Murdered Memorial Dance. At this time, can I get all dancers to make your way towards the arena? Every year, we commemorate our missing and murdered relatives. We dance for justice and we dance for closure. We dance to honor those taken too soon.

FANCY DANCE (2023) dir. Erica Tremblay