{"id":70247,"date":"2017-10-30T15:57:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T01:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=70247"},"modified":"2020-01-15T13:47:31","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T23:47:31","slug":"chris-eyre-indigenous-ways-of-viewing-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/10\/30\/chris-eyre-indigenous-ways-of-viewing-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Native American filmmaker explores indigenous ways of viewing reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/west-oahu-eyre-c.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Eyre\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-70251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/west-oahu-eyre-c.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/west-oahu-eyre-c-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Noted Native American Director Chris Eyre will discuss bringing indigenous perspectives to filmmaking while screening parts of one of his critically acclaimed films during a visit to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uhwo.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>&#8211;West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The acclaimed filmmaker will appear at Finding Smoke Signals with Chris Eyre: Indigenous Ways of Viewing Reality, Thursday, November 9, 3:30 p.m. at <a href=\"http:\/\/uluulu.hawaii.edu\/\"><span aria-label=\"Ulu ulu\">&#699;Ulu&#699;ulu<\/span>: The Henry K. <span aria-label=\"Kuualoha\">Ku&#699;ualoha<\/span> Giugni Moving Image Archive of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span><\/a> in the James and Abigail Campbell Library. The event is open to students, faculty, and staff as well as the community.<\/p>\n<p>Eyre, an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes, is best known for <em>Smoke Signals<\/em>, a 1998 independent film that was heralded as the first Native American-directed feature-length film to receive national theatrical release. Eyre\u2019s other films have won acclaim and include <em>Edge of America<\/em> (2003) and <em>A Thousand Roads<\/em> (2005). His success led <em>People<\/em> magazine to proclaim him &ldquo;the preeminent Native American filmmaker of his time.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Eyre most recently served as Santa Fe University of Art and Design film school chair and is the fall 2017 the Dan and Maggie Inouye Distinguished Chair in Democratic Ideals at <abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa. He is being brought to <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> by the school\u2019s Distinguished Visiting Scholars Program in partnership with the <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa Thought-Leader Series.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uhwo.hawaii.edu\/ekamakanihou\/?p=6905\">Read more at <em>E Kamakani Hou<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Greg Wiles<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director Chris Eyre will discuss bringing indigenous perspectives to filmmaking at a public event at <abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":70251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,1],"tags":[906,59],"class_list":["post-70247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-news","tag-e-kamakani-hou","tag-uh-west-oahu","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/west-oahu-eyre-c.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70247"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109385,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70247\/revisions\/109385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}