Film Screening:
Karthik Pandian
Type
Screening
Series
Barbara Lee Lecture Series
Location
Old Dominion Fresco Barn
Skowhegan Campus
39 Art School Rd
Madison, ME 04950
Date
7:30 PM
Related from The Library
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Surrendur movie poster. Courtesy the artist.
Karthik Pandian, Surrendur, 2025. Courtesy the artist.
Karthik Pandian, Surrendur, 2025. Courtesy the artist.
Karthik Pandian, Surrendur, 2025. Courtesy the artist.
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Surrendur movie poster. Courtesy the artist.
Karthik Pandian, Surrendur, 2025. Courtesy the artist.
Karthik Pandian, Surrendur, 2025. Courtesy the artist.
Karthik Pandian, Surrendur, 2025. Courtesy the artist.
Visiting Faculty Karthik Pandian presents a screening of Surrendur (Karthik Pandian, 2026, 87 min) in advance of his faculty lecture on campus. The filmmaker and writer shares that Surrendur: “transmits the stories of Mike Forcia (Bad River Anishinaabe), the American Indian Movement activist who orchestrated the toppling of a monument to Christopher Columbus, and Ta Pe’juta Wičháȟpi Win (Hunkpati Dakota Oyate), whose political consciousness was awakened when she danced around the fallen statue with her daughter. The energies of the George Floyd Uprising, the Anishinaabe Seven Fires Prophecy, and the Dakota 38+2 Memorial Ride are conducted through Pandian’s distinctive practice of editing non-synchronous 16mm film and sound.
Oscillating between intimate conversation and kinetic montage, Surrendur traces the riverine networks of migration and homecoming, chance encounter and carefully cultivated collaboration that drew Pandian into deep relation with Forcia, Win, and other luminous activists and artists from Minneapolis, the heart of revolt at the center of Turtle Island.”
About the artist:
Karthik Pandian is an artist and teacher developing ceremonial technologies. He has presented his works in moving image, sculpture, performance, and sound internationally at exhibition venues such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Hammer, Palais de Tokyo, and the Whitechapel Gallery and on digital platforms such as the Criterion Channel and Triple Canopy. He is a professor of Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard University and a guide, certified in offering Lama Rod Owens’ Seven Homecomings practice. Pandian’s Creative Capital Awarded-project, Surrendur, is a collaboration with American Indian Movement activist Mike Forcia. In 2025, he presented an exhibition version of the work at Midway Contemporary Art and premiered a short film version at the 63rd New York Film Festival.
