Premiere of “Remembered Earth – New Mexico’s High Desert” at The Northwest New Mexico Visitor Center
“A breathtaking and poetic journey across one of the most beautiful and
forbidding landscapes in North America.”
The Washington Post
“A remarkable work of great integrity.”
American Society of Cinematographers
“A fabulous film, intelligent and beautiful.”
Smithsonian Institution
The staff of El Malpais National Monument and the Northwest New Mexico
Visitor Center are pleased to announce the premiere of the center’s new
movie, Remembered Earth: New Mexico’s High Desert, on June 9, 2005. The 27
minute film will be screened at 6 and 7 pm, with a maximum of 60 seats per
screening in the center’s theater. This event is free and open to the
public; seats will be filled on a first come, first served basis.
Remembered Earth is a captivating journey through a storied landscape of
the American West, featuring spectacular landscape photography and a
thoughtful interpretation of land ethics by Pulitzer Prize-winning author
N. Scott Momaday. Noted Indian actor Irene Bedard (Smoke Signals,
Pocahontas) narrates the film. The haunting original orchestral score by
Academy Award-winner Todd Boekelheide was recorded at Skywalker Sound.
Remembered Earth explores the relationships between people and the land,
“exemplified by the ingenious use of clips of Hollywood Westerns that
helped mythologize not just the Southwest but America itself.” (Washington
Post) It has been an official selection of environmental film festivals in
Washington, DC, Italy and Greece, and won first place and merit awards for
script and photography at the International Wildlife Film Festival. An HD
version of Remembered Earth will be featured in a national prime time
broadcast on PBS later this year.
Filmmaker John Grabowska will be present at the premiere to discuss the
movie. For more information about this event, contact the Northwest New
Mexico Visitor Center at (505) 876-2783.
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BIOS
There are few people who know Northwest New Mexico more intimately than N.
Scott Momaday. He is an internationally renowned poet, novelist,
playwright, artist, literary scholar and environmental essayist. The son of
an artist father and writer mother who both taught for the BIA, he grew up
at Jemez Pueblo, Shiprock and Gallup, still makes his home in New Mexico
and sets most of his writings here. Educated at the University of New
Mexico and Stanford University, he holds an earned Ph.D. and is presently
Regents? Professor of the Humanities at the University of Arizona. Momaday
is regarded as the founding father of American Indian literature, having
won the 1968 Pulitzer Prize for his novel House Made of Dawn. He is a
trustee of the National Museum of the American Indian and sits on the
Boards of the First Nations Development Institute and the School of
American Research.
Filmmaker John Grabowska has produced films from the subarctic to the
subtropics. His films have been official selections of more than 40
festivals around the world, broadcast nationally on PBS and have received
numerous international awards. He has presented his films to audiences at
the National Geographic Society and the Smithsonian Institution, conducted
environmental media workshops in Argentina and Panama and serves as an
advisor to the American Conservation Film Festival. Since 1991 Grabowska
has been writing, producing and directing documentary films with the
Interpretive Design Center of the National Park Service. He has lived in
Spain, Austria, Honduras and Washington, DC but when asked where he is from
always answers, “South Dakota.”