Interviews with Chip Thomas -  Shaandiin Tome  - Tomahawk Greyeyes  - Guitar music by Arthur Pas 

Installed as double projection Length: 52 minutes The film installation, using double projection, represents a road trip from LA to Navajo Nation in Arizona, New Mexico, undertaken by photographer Bernaded Dexters and artist Christine Clinckx in January 2022 to visit artists working at the Navajo Nation. The film contains manipulated images of the landscape made by Clinckx and interviews she conducted with the artists Chip Thomas, Shaandiin Tome and Tomahawk Greyeyes, living and working at the Navajo Nation reservation. The artists talk about the themes in their work, referring to social and ecological issues threatening their communities and environment such as water rights, nuclear spill and uranium mining. The title of the film, Lip Dip Paint, refers to low-paid female factory workers in the early 1920s, painting the dials of watches with glowing paint containing uranium and using their lips to adjust their brushes, which led to illnesses and several deaths. For more information on Waterbury’s Radium Girls, see: https://connecticuthistory.org/waterburys-radium-girls/ For more information on water problematics and uranium mining on Navajo land. https://blog.ucs.org/chanese-forte/us-uranium-mining-legacy-still-harms-the-navajo-nation/