Tenacity, was my first real film, including sync-sound, dolly, location-shooting and was self-written. With the Director of Photography, I relied on shots to tell the story and really thought about each shot individually in a way that I haven't done since. At the time, I meant the story as a metaphor between Indian people and the larger American society. It symbolized to me autonomy, power-struggle and responsibility. Most importantly, I also wondered if the truck and its passengers would ever return to the scene. TENACITY (1995)
TENACITY is a short B & W story of two Indian boys, Clint and Joseph who encounter the corruption and haphazard violence of the adult world in a roadside hit-and-run accident. Tenacity has the spare brutal elegance of a contemporary short story rendered on film. Filmed in Onondaga Territory in upstate New York, this award winning short of friendship and loss.available exclusively online here:
te·nac·i·ty n : the quality or state of being tenacious.
te·na·cious adj : 1 a : not easily pulled apart : COHESIVE -a tenacious metal
b : tending to adhere or cling especially to
another substance; tenacious burs
2 a : persistent in maintaining or adhering to something
valued or habitual; a tenacious royalist
b : RETENTIVE; a tenacious memory
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