Iniskim - Return of the Buffalo | movie | 2024 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

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00:00Every year our elders tell us, go to the medicine world, remember that you have a relationship

00:14up there with stars.

00:17We're sky people.

00:24Our stories, our ceremonies, it's all related to the buffalo.

00:30Let's see if we can bring the buffalo back.

00:36How can we celebrate the buffalo?

00:39Someone said, Pete Botwell, and he's a puppet master.

00:42And I thought, wow, puppets.

00:46Here's some other kinds of puppets.

00:47Oh look, here's a pig.

00:48Do you need a pig in your show?

00:50Buffalo?

00:51How about a pig?

00:55We've been experimenting with lantern puppets in an outdoor environment at night.

01:00They glow.

01:01A show at night, the buffalo under the stars.

01:05This project isn't just an art project, it's a celebration.

01:10You might call it a ceremony.

01:13I can say I am buffalo.

01:15I am the environment.

01:17We really believe that's true.

01:20Even on these buffalo lanterns, you are the buffalo.

01:24You become the buffalo.

01:26They become a part of you.

01:28We found ourselves living treaty in this project, in the performance of the project.

01:38These are stories that are birthrights to our children to hear.

01:43They'll always know who they are from the stories.