Arlene Bowman
Director
Movies2
Movie5.5DramaThrillerWhat begins as a Navajo officer's investigation into a prop plane crash on his Southwest reservation gives way to a drug smuggling ring and murder.
The Dark Wind
1992 · 11 votes
Movie7.5DocumentaryFilm student Arlene Bowman (Navajo) travels to the Reservation to document the traditional ways of her grandmother. The filmmaking persists in spite of her grandmother's forceful objections to this invasion of her privacy. Ultimately, what emerges is a work which abruptly calls into question issues of "insider/outsider" status in a portrait of an assimilated Navajo struggling to use a "white man's" medium to capture the remnants of her cultural past.
Navajo Talking Picture
1985 · 2 votes