Local Journalism Initiative Months after the release of Red Fever, award-winning Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond is back with his latest documentary, So Surreal: Behind the Masks. \u00a0Co-directed by Joanne Robertson, the film explores the fascinating \u00a0connection between Indigenous ceremonial masks and the Surrealist art \u00a0movement of the 1930s and 1940s. \u201cThe Surrealists were interested in dreams in the act of creation,\u201d Diamond told the Nation. \u00a0\u201cThey would try to recreate dreams they had, considering them \u00a0important, which is the same in Cree culture. I remember my father \u00a0talking about certain dreams that were messages from who knows where \u2013 \u00a0your mind, the universe?\u201d In the early stages of filming Red Fever\u2019sdive into pop \u00a0culture\u2019s stereotypical Indigenous imagery, Diamond heard about a \u00a0century-old mask selling at a high-end art fair and… <\/p>\n
Local Journalism Initiative Months after the release of Red Fever, award-winning Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond is back with his latest documentary, So Surreal: Behind the Masks. \u00a0Co-directed by Joanne Robertson, the film explores the fascinating \u00a0connection between Indigenous ceremonial masks and the Surrealist art \u00a0movement of the 1930s and 1940s. \u201cThe Surrealists were interested in dreams in the act of creation,\u201d Diamond told the Nation. \u00a0\u201cThey would try to recreate dreams they had, considering them \u00a0important, which is the same in Cree culture. I remember my father \u00a0talking about certain dreams that were messages from who knows where \u2013 \u00a0your mind, the universe?\u201d In the early stages of filming Red Fever\u2019sdive into pop \u00a0culture\u2019s stereotypical Indigenous imagery, Diamond heard about a \u00a0century-old mask selling at a high-end art fair and... <\/p>\n