Bury the Hatchet
Directed by Aaron Walker
2011, USA, 86 mins.
Bury the Hatchet’s box describes it as a portrait of three major Mardi Gras Indian Chiefs of New Orleans (Alfred Doucette, Monk Boudreaux, and Victor Harris), and whilst I’ll admit that these men loom large, this documentary feels less like a portrait of these three and more of a landscape of New Orleans as a whole as painted by the Big Chiefs themselves. Covering five years, before and after Hurricane Katrina, this film brings us the Mardi Gras Indian’s authentic and intimate take on New Orleans. Their story is one of gentrification and urban decay, of struggle against the police and amongst themselves, and of the tradition threatened from within by indifferent youth and from without by natural disaster. Director Aaron Walker tops off that tall order with a killer jazz soundtrack, because why make a film about...
Directed by Aaron Walker
2011, USA, 86 mins.
Bury the Hatchet’s box describes it as a portrait of three major Mardi Gras Indian Chiefs of New Orleans (Alfred Doucette, Monk Boudreaux, and Victor Harris), and whilst I’ll admit that these men loom large, this documentary feels less like a portrait of these three and more of a landscape of New Orleans as a whole as painted by the Big Chiefs themselves. Covering five years, before and after Hurricane Katrina, this film brings us the Mardi Gras Indian’s authentic and intimate take on New Orleans. Their story is one of gentrification and urban decay, of struggle against the police and amongst themselves, and of the tradition threatened from within by indifferent youth and from without by natural disaster. Director Aaron Walker tops off that tall order with a killer jazz soundtrack, because why make a film about...
- 4/21/2011
- by DaveRobson
- SoundOnSight
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