On a Knife Edge (2017)

On a Knife Edge is a fatherson story about Guy and George Dull Knife that unfolds over the course of Georges comingofage journey Under his fathers guidance George becomes an activist and organizer and begins identifying with the role of traditional Lakota warrior which he views as his family legacy He commits himself to the fight for social justice but struggles with adapting the old ways and his fathers expectations to the modernday realities of growing up on the Pine Ridge Reservation Told largely through Georges eyes the film offers a privileged glimpse into the youngest generation of the American Indian Movement as well as Georges own evolving notions of Native identity manhood and duty His story is interwoven with animated sequences that depict five generations of family history narrated by his father and based on paintings he has created to explore the continuum of their fight through the generations