Nominated for the EMAF Media Art Award of the Association of German Film Critics (VdFk)

German premiere

English, Kiowa, Plains Indian Sign Language with English subtitles

The Early Sun, Red As A Hunter’s Moon connects Kiowa lore in excerpts from N. Scott Momaday’s The Way to Rainy Mountain, a reunion in Portugal between the filmmaker and their friend after 20 years, and a historical attempt to decode a cryptic letter from 1890 with “hieroglyphic script” that arrived at Pennsylvania’s Carlisle Indian Industrial School and was sent from a reservation in the Oklahoma Territory to a Kiowa student named Belo Cozad. Shot on expired 8mm film, the film presents a collision of fragments of time and Kiowa memory.

• Sektion Section: Film
• Programm Programme: For Counter-Notation