Shelley Niro (partial data)
Films directed by Shelley Niro
Quotes by Shelley Niro
"Back in 1992, film was something that I never would have even imagined I would be able to make. It's like saying, 'Okay, I want to be an astronaut', and it's like, 'Yeah, right!' Because it will never happen, because you know for one thing, economically it is so beyond my scope. I never even considered it until I met a filmmaker, Anna Gronau, from Toronto, whom I approached to make a film with me. I think once I went through the steps of making this film, seeing the actual steps that had to be done to make a film, I realized that you can make a film, anybody can make a film."
-- Shelley Niro
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"In the past, I wanted to create opposing views of how Indian women were seen. By playing with what was already there, I could deconstruct and invent new personalities. In the end, I came back to what is culturally embedded. I present images that speak loudly of Indian women who happen to be Iroquois."
-- Shelley Niro
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For QUOTES about a specific film by Shelley Niro, please see: It Starts With a Whisper
Honey Moccasin
Suite: INDIAN
Notes about Shelley Niro
- Filmmaker, photographer, painter, and sculptor.
- Member of the Mohawk Nation.
- Born in Niagara Falls, Ontario.
- Grew up on the Six Nations Reserve (near Brantford, Ontario)
- Studied at Cambrian College, the Ontario College of Art, and the University of Western Ontario.
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Bibliography for
Shelley
Niro
Section 1: Publications about Shelley Niro
Book Chapters
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Kalafatic, Carol. "Keepers of the Power: Story as Covenant in the Films of Loretta Todd, Shelley Niro, and Christine Welsh."
In Gendering the Nation: Canadian
Women's Cinema, edited by Kay Armatage, Kass Banning, Brenda Longfellow, and Janine Marchessault, 109-119. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999.
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Weatherford, Elizabeth. "The Journey's Discovery: An Interview with Shelley Niro."
Interview with Shelley Niro.
In Native Americans on Film: Conversations, Teaching, and Theory, edited by Eric L. Buffalohead and M. Elise Marubbio, 337-358. Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky, 2013.
Section 2: Publications about the Films of Shelley Niro
Brief Sections of Dissertations
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Kalbfleisch, Elizabeth Claire. "The Testamental Landscape: Framing Homeland in Alanis Obomsawin's Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance."
In "Bordering on Feminism: Home and Transnational Sites in Recent Visual Culture and Native Women's Art." PhD diss., University of Rochester, 2009. (pp. 102-104)
Book Chapters
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Smith, Paul Chaat. "Shelley Niro: Honey Moccasin: Home Alone."
In Reservation X: The Power of Place in Aboriginal Contemporary Art, edited by Gerald R. McMaster, 107-119. Fredericton, N.B.: Goose Lane, 1998.
Brief Sections of Books
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Gittings, Christopher E. Canadian National Cinema: Ideology, Difference and Representation. London: Routledge, 2002.
(pp. 226-230)
Journal Articles
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Beadling, Laura L. "In an 'Indian' Key: Shelley Niro's Revisioning of the Baroque Suite Form in Suite: Indian." Canadian Journal of Film Studies / Revue canadienne d'études cinématographiques 20, no. 2 (Autumn 2011): 111-127.
Archival Collections
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