Gail Tremblay
The Ultimate 1976 Myth of a Nineteenth Century "Adopted" White English "Sioux" Wannabe, 2018
16mm film (The Return of a Man Called Horse, 1976); black, red and white 16mm film leader; gold metallic yarn
10 1/2 x 7 x 7 in
26.7 x 17.8 x 17.8 cm
26.7 x 17.8 x 17.8 cm
TRE070
Further images
Basket woven with 16mm film from “The Return of the Man Called Horse', 1976. The specific footage used is from the trailer of this Hollywood movie, which was made to...
Basket woven with 16mm film from “The Return of the Man Called Horse", 1976.
The specific footage used is from the trailer of this Hollywood movie, which was made to advertise it when it showed on TV.
IMDB lists this synopsis:
English aristocrat John Morgan (Richard Harris), previously captured by the Yellow Hand Sioux who treated him as a horse until he rose to the position of chief within the tribe, returns to find his adopted Indian tribe dispirited, forced off their sacred land by the white traders, and awaiting supernatural intervention. Morgan, known to the tribe as Shunkawakan ('Horse'), decides to take things into his own hands.
The specific footage used is from the trailer of this Hollywood movie, which was made to advertise it when it showed on TV.
IMDB lists this synopsis:
English aristocrat John Morgan (Richard Harris), previously captured by the Yellow Hand Sioux who treated him as a horse until he rose to the position of chief within the tribe, returns to find his adopted Indian tribe dispirited, forced off their sacred land by the white traders, and awaiting supernatural intervention. Morgan, known to the tribe as Shunkawakan ('Horse'), decides to take things into his own hands.
Exhibitions
2022 Four Artists: Traditions and Process, Bainbridge Arts & Crafts Gallery, Bainbridge Island, WA (September)2022 Subversive Media, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA (June 3 - July 22)
2021-2022 Shattering Images: The Film Baskets of Gail Tremblay, Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR (monograph available)
2018 Re-Imagining Film Images of American Indians, Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR
Publications
2021 Shattering Images: The Film Baskets of Gail Tremblay. Edited by Cathy Denning. Portland, OR: Froelick Gallery, 2021.
Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, shown at Froelick Gallery, December 1, 2021 – January 29,
2022. Monograph illustration, p. 15, 22.