As part of the Bard College Center for Indigenous Studies Native American Heritage Month programming, we are excited to screen So Surreal: Behind the Masks on Wednesday November 19th at 7:00PM in Weis Cinema.
Directed by Neil Diamond (Cree), “So Surreal: Behind the Masks unveils the fascinating connection between the work of famed Surrealist artists and Yupʼik and Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw ceremonial masks, and the quest to bring some of the masks back home.”
Neil Diamond is a Cree filmmaker and photographer from Waskaganish, Quebec. He co-directed the short documentaries Inuit Cree Reconciliation (13) and Heavy Metal: A Mining Disaster in Northern Quebec (14) and features including Reel Injun (09) and Red Fever (24). So Surreal: Behind the Masks (24) is his latest film.