Commissioned by the Smithsonian Museum of Native Americans in Washington D.C, the hypnotic 43-minute film A Thousand Roads follows four contemporary Native Americans through a single crisis-filled day. Director Chris Eyre (Smoke Signals), after hearing composer
Lisa Gerrard's atmospheric soundtrack to 2002's Whale Rider, asked the singer, along with Los Angeles-based composer
Jeff Rona (Traffic, Black Hawk Down) to provide the short film's soundtrack. Fans of
Gerrard will find much to love here, as the talented other half of
Dead Can Dance adapts seamlessly to genre, layering her ethereal vocals over
Rona's tasteful electronics,
the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra and flutists
R. Carlos Nakai and
Douglas Spotted Eagle. ~ James Christopher Monger