The time of the Indigenous critic has arrived
for the Q&A portion of a film screening, a few people duck out early; that’s just how it is. But you can usually count on good responses from those who stick around. Usually. One night in Colorado, though, things went a little differently. I was with my cast-mates at the 2017 Durango Independent Film Festival, waiting for a Q&A session for our film . Directed by Blackhorse Lowe, it’s an artsy, hilarious, brash modern work that deals with heavy themes in funny ways. At the start, the protagonist, Riggs, wants to kill himself, but his friends knock him back into reality. In one sequence, when he tries hanging himself, one of them stops him, and they downplay the incident as autoerotic asphyxiation gone awry. Shot in black-and-white, demands a certain patience. The first 20 minutes slowly set the tone, then the film leads you down a path of misadventures in
