Bloodlines: Indigenous Horror Film Showcase
OCTOBER 2025
What is October without movies that haunt? Join curator and Tulsa Artist Fellow Colleen Thurston (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma) for a night of terrifying Indigenous stories that confront the dark forces of colonial assimilation while drawing on ancestral knowledge and supernatural figures. The program also honors the late Oneida actor Graham Greene, whose unforgettable performance in Clearcut anchors the showcase.
A conversation between directors Ishkwaazhe Shane McSauby (Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians) and Oklahoma's own Skull Crawlers Orrin Ponkilla (Absentee Shawnee) and Cary Thomas Cody (Kiowa) will follow the screening.
Featuring:
The Beguiling by Ishkwaazhe Shane McSauby
File Under Miscellaneous by Jeff Barnaby
Wakening by Danis Goulet
and the premiere of Crooked Face, a new film by The Skull Crawlers
Followed by:
CLEARCUT, an eco-horror revenge thriller featuring the late Graham Greene (Oneida). At its release in 1992, Clearcut was described as "A thriller-fable about oppression and rebellion in modern terms. But it’s also about the hell of answered prayers, the nightmare of seeing your brutal fantasies come alive." (Michael Wilmington, Los Angeles Times) In Clearcut, Greene is at his best playing the victim-villian, a terrifying yet mesmerizing character that will stay with you, perhaps forever.