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Franconia’s monthly summer film series takes place outside in Franconia’s amphitheater. Films highlight the best in art films, past and present, with 2022 films focused on the intersection of Art & Ecology in celebration of 4Ground: Midwest Land Art Biennial.

June’s Film @ Franconia program features short environmental films by local filmmakers, as well as the Minnesota premiere of Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives on Restoring our World.

FILMS

Landspun: Ice, Ben Lundquist (Monticello, MN), 4:59

Run Dry: Trying to Survive, Kristine Diekman (Ephraim, WI), 7:17

Turkeys in the Cemetery, Alex Cheng (Rochester, MN), 2:13

SYNLawn® Never Looked More Natural, Jody Joyner (Rochester, MN), 5:46

Salix, Torey Erin (Minneapolis, MN), 5:00

Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives on Restoring Our World, 76:00

INHABITANTS: INDIGENOUS PERSPECTIVES ON RESTORING OUR WORLD follows five Native American communities as they restore their traditional land management practices in the face of a changing climate. For millennia Native Americans successfully stewarded and shaped their landscapes, but centuries of colonization have disrupted their ability to maintain these processes. From deserts, coastlines, forests, mountains, and prairies, Native communities across the US are restoring their ancient relationships with the land. The five stories include sustaining traditions of Hopi dryland farming in Arizona; restoring buffalo to the Blackfeet reservation in Montana; maintaining sustainable forestry on the Menominee reservation in Wisconsin; reviving native food forests in Hawaii; and returning prescribed fire to the landscape by the Karuk Tribe of California. As the climate crisis escalates, these time-tested practices of North America's original inhabitants are becoming increasingly essential in a rapidly changing world.