So Indigenous, So Surreal - POV Magazine

So Indigenous, So Surreal - POV Magazine

The documentary So Surreal: Behind the Masks opens with a scene that could belong to a vintage detective story. The director, Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond, a middle-aged hipster in his spectacles and a short greying ponytail, enters a phone booth in New York City and dials the number of a private investigator. There’s someone he needs to find who doesn’t seem to want to be found. It’s a case of a stolen mask, the Raven Transformation Mask, an obj…