Gesture Down (I don’t sing)

A graceful and highly personal interpretation of the poem Gesture Down to Guatemala by the late Blackfeet/Gros Venture writer James Welch. Taken from Mr. Welch’s acclaimed book Riding The Earthboy 40, the poem is a starkly beautiful first-person rumination on place, longing and identity, themes of deep resonance for Cedar, who is descendent of (and sometimes estranged from) the La Huerta Indian community of northern Baja California, Mexico, which is where the majority of the film was shot. (Morelia International Film Festival)