KATAH-DIN
ABOUT
Molly Spotted Elk was born into a Penobscot tribe in Maine and throughout her life provided a doorway between worlds. She recorded the creation history of her people in a book and simultaneously portrayed the Native American stereotype at nightclubs in New York, Paris, and most notably as Neewa in H.P. Carver’s 1930 film THE SILENT ENEMY. The figure of Molly is used as a lens to examine the process of erasure, and restores something that has been lost in American history but hidden in plain sight.
Taylor Dunne is a filmmaker, curator and educator. She has an affinity for photographic processes, amateur film, the personal archive and the history of the cinematic apparatus. Her works have been exhibited at venues that include; the New York Film Festival, the Tribeca Film Festival, Crossroads Film and Video Festival (San Francisco), FOL: Experimental Film Society (Istanbul), EXDOC (Paris) and The Deluge Center for Contemporary Art (Victoria, BC). She has curated film screenings for The Black Cube Artist Program, Experiments in Cinema Film Festival (Albuquerque) and Transient Visions: Festival of the Moving Image. Currently she an Assistant Professor in the Film Studies Department at Keene State College.