Little White Feather and the Hunter
Saturday, 4:00 pm, Vinegar Hill Theatre
Director: Anna Lucas
Running Time: 40 min.
Following an encounter with a maverick Pocahontas enthusiast in Essex, England, artist Anna Lucas traveled around Virginia in the fall of 2007, using the local legendary female figure of Pocahontas as a virtual guide. From that experience came both a gallery show and this film, Little White Feather and the Hunter.
Interweaving multiple accounts of the Pocahontas story gathered from amateurs and experts in England and Virginia, Lucas uses the iconic figure as a protagonist. Through her she discovers contemporary realities and explores how our understanding of the world and historical events is assimilated through a variety of media. Lucas’s filming style, though resembling documentary, often becomes more formal and cinematic, playing in subtle ways with audience uncertainty about what is real or fictional. The story of Pocahontas has been told and retold through history, and many versions of the “truth” are now circulating.
Preceding the film will be the regional premiere of the latest work by Derek Sieg (Swedish Auto), Wasteland.
In this contemporary thriller, a white man who is about to lose his home to foreclosure sets out to kill the chairman of a local Indian tribe who is blocking a casino project.
