True/False Films

Summer Sun Winter Moon

In person: director Hugo Perez.

Work in progress. Here in America, the apex of European high culture is in trouble. That is, classical music is dying. Composer Rob Kapilow means to save it, so he enlists some unlikely help: Darrell Robes Kipp, a Blackfoot poet and American Indian activist. Kapilow asks Kipp to write the libretto for his symphony commemorating the 200th anniversary of the Lewis and Clark expedition — which, by some counts, marked the beginning of the end for American Indian culture. It was certainly the end for two unarmed Blackfoot boys shot and killed by Captain Lewis — an episode that Kipp's Blackfot students have witnessed as a stage play. When high culture meets native culture, there are eerie resonances and overtones, and not just those of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, who will premiere the men's unconventional collaboration. Plays with Kredens (dir. Jacob Dammas, 2007, 27 min.) — Jacob goes back to Poland to reclaim a piece of his family's history; — a wood cupboard confiscated in the late '60s — only to find it's not going to be easy. (RM) (Presented by the University of Missouri)