FOLLOW ME HOME
Tuesday May 7, 1996 at 9 a.m. and 12 p.m.
and
Wednesday May 8, 1996 at 5 p.m.
Harvard University
Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy Street
Quincy Street
Free and open to the public
A discussion will follow all film screenings with writer/director - producer,
Peter Bratt and producer, star, Benjamin Bratt.
Follow Me Home, a film which explores race identity in America, has been called
one of the best Latino, African, Native American films to date after its debut
at the Cannes and Sundance Films Festivals. Follow Me Home was born out of
director/producer Peter Bratt's desire to make films that reflect indigenous
themes, histories and stories.
The film tells the story of four artists and their road trip across the
American landscape to paint a vivid, multi-ethnic mural on the White House.
Yet as soon as the artists leave the familiarity of urban streets and take to
the vastness of the wide open land, something strange begins to happen.
Whispering voices, hypnotic rhythms, dreams and illusions begin to blur the
line between what is real and what is not.
"All the main characters in this film carry what Dr. Eduardo and Bonnie Duran
(executive producers of the film) refer to as the "soul wound," says the
film's director/writer Peter Bratt. "The soul wound is a result of the
perpetration that was committed against the indigenous peoples of the Americas,
and also the Africans that were brought here as slaves." The Duran's developed
the term "soul wound" in their recent book Native American Post Colonial
Psychology (New York, SUNY press 1995). Bratt wanted to incorporate the
Duran's theories of intergenerational trauma and internalized oppression
amongst Native Americans, situating these issues within a modern, urban, and
multi-cultural setting.