Red Brigade Films series: Marie Watt

"I am interested in amplifying stories about my history, stories about place and the Indigenous presence and history in places that we take for granted..." - Marie Watt

The latest short documentary in our STTLMNT series features Marie Watt (Cattauragus Territory Seneca Nation of Indians, Turtle Clan). Marie is a cross-disciplinary artist who makes Indigenous knowledge visible by drawing from obscured history, biography, Iroquois protofeminism, and Native Futurism. Her practice resides at the intersection of history, community and storytelling. Her site-responsive work spurs individuals and communities to engage in dialogue surrounding their own histories and experiences of the world. These multi-generational, intercultural and cross-disciplinary conversations create a lens for understanding connectedness to place, one another, and the universe in its ancient and modern condition.