Doe Boy director's statement
	When an Indian makes a film, the act itself is so improbable that it is inherently a glancing blow against stereotype and a new page in American film history. Film conspires with its economics to keep most people, and especially poor people, from making them in a way that other art forms do not. The materials required to create a painting or write a song do not necessarily cost a lot of money. A pawn shop guitar. Canvas and some paint. Certainly these materials are not free, but most who desire to paint or play music can expect to do so, can expect to express themselves in their chosen art form time and time again. They can savely expect not to witness the passing of five even ten precious years as they endeavor steadily but in vain to procure enough paint to finish their first picture! My film education comes from watching and making films. I did not attend film school, do not consider myself a scholar of film or an authority on film history. I can only remember the experience ot watching a movie, of going to the movies, of the vast range of emotions that films inspired in me. I´ve left theatres wanting to fight, scream, laugh and make love. I´ve left crying, nauseous and believing in ghosts. I always thought it would be great to be an architect of such experiences. Cinema was a language that in my early twenties, I realized I could speak, that I had learned gradually over the course of my lifetime, some basic sense of how a film was put together. It was like growing up in a house with a second language that you never used but one day realized you understood, even if you couldn´t speak it well. Since not all filmmakers are good „speakers“, I had a sense of film „slang“ of film „double-speak“ of film „gibberish“ too. I have and still do learn as much from watching bad movies as I do from watching good ones. I hope to continue to learn filmmaking by making and watching films. And by depending on the many talented collaborators that make any director look better than they are. And to one day be fluent in this language I love. previous - overview - next