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crowdog
Crowdog

Crowdog

super8 to video 7 min. 1984/1998

 Filmmaker Vanessa Renwick's diaristic "CROWDOG" was shot on super-8 during a 9-month barefoot hitchhiking trip across the US. The film records her visit to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota to investigate the remnants of the FBI's "Reign of Terror" on the American Indian Movement. On daily walks to the river with her wolf dog she meditates on her experiences as a barefooted person in a shoe-wearing world. 

"Reading about The American Indian Movement makes me pick up and hitchhike out to Pine Ridge Rez in South Dakota, with my dog Zeb,during a period in my life where I walked barefoot for 2 1/2 years."

AWARDS
1998 1st Place F Word Film Festival, Portland, OR