A New Native American Classic
selected for the Sundance Film Festival and for Venice Days
coming soon:
New York, New York: Museum of Modern Art, May 12-17 – 35mm
Palm Springs, CA: Camelot Theatres, March 13, 8pm – Beta-SP video
Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, April 2 and 4, 2010 – 35mm
Plymouth, Massachusetts: Plimoth Plantation, April 3-8, 2010 (video)
Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum, April 16-22 – 35mm – Sterlin Harjo in person!
Austin, Texas: Cine las americas, April 22-28 – 35mm
Denton, Texas: University of North Texas, April 29 (video)
Tucson, Arizona: Heard Museum, May 21, 2010 (video)
confirmed but dates tbd:
Hartford, CT: Wadsworth Atheneum
Bellingham, WA: The Pickford
Already played but would love to play again:
Denver, Colorado / Washington, DC / Mill Valley, California / San Francisco, California / Lincoln, Nebraska / Oklahoma City, Oklahoma / Tulsa, Oklahoma / Tucson, Arizona / Ada, Oklahoma / Bainbridge Island, Washington / Sedona, Arizona / North Charleston, South Carolina …
Not screening near you? Suggest a show.
starring Richard Ray Whitman and Casey Camp-Horinek
“[Sterlin] Harjo, with his absorbing shooting rhythms, keen eye for landscape and drama, and two remarkable stars, Richard Ray Whitman and Casey Camp-Horinek, reinvigorates the notion of a road movie, investing the genre with emotion both plangent and deep.”
- Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art
“Before Oklahoma was a red state, it was known as the Land of the Red People, described by the Choctaw phrase Okla Humma. In his sophomore film, Sterlin Harjo takes viewers on a road trip through his own personal Oklahoma, which includes an eclectic mix of humanity. Irene and Frankie have a difficult past, but Frankie needs Irene to help him with one task. He needs to get out of the hospital and go home to his daughter and new grandbaby to make amends. Irene had been his one, true, on-again, off-again love until they parted ways for good. But to make up for the past, Irene agrees to help him in this trying time. With steady and graceful performances by Richard Ray Whitman as Frankie and Casey Camp-Horinek as Irene, this story takes viewers for a ride in the backseat of Frankie and Irene’s Indian car, listening to their past and the rhythmic soundtrack that sets the beat for a redemptive road journey. Harjo wraps us in the charm and love of Oklahoma through the people and places Irene and Frankie visit along the way. In this sparingly sentimental and achingly poignant film, Harjo claims his place as one of the most truthful and honest voices working in American cinema today. Barking Water is an expression of gratitude for the ability to have lived and loved.”
- Bird Runningwater, Sundance Film Festival 2009 Catalog
Booking in the U.S. and Canada on behalf of Kino Lorber. Other rights available worldwide.
