As I promised in my last post, I'll be telling you about a film that was shown at the American Indian Film Festival . The film was Fry Bread Babes , a documentary by Steffany Suttle. BTW, fry bread is an important food in Native Indian culture.
It was Steffany's thesis project. Her film deals with Native women's body-image and identity. Elaine Miles was one of the women in it who shared her own experiences and ideas about her own self-image. The film is entertaining and thought-provoking using images from the women's youth, commericals and other media that present the idealized images that conflicted with their own bodies an identities.
Here's a clip from the film with Elaine Miles talking about hair.
In Elaine's words, "fry bread is round and brown, like me." Elaine's description led to Steffany choosing it to create the title for her film.This film is available through Native Voices .
After the film there was a brief Q&A session with Steffany & Elaine. See the next post for a video clip from this interview.
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