Vol. I — The living archive
01 / The vision
A new American image
History was never
colorless.
Southern Arawak creates Americana from the perspective of the entire continent—its civilizations, movement, memory, beauty and descendants.
Featured work / 2026
Movement is
an archive.
Dance cinema shaped by ancestral memory, modern power and the landscapes of the Americas.
View the collection →02 / Selected worlds
The Visual Archive
Film. Movement. Civilizations. Living memory.
03 / Field notes
From the journal
04 / The artist
Southern Arawak
A filmmaker, visual artist and cultural storyteller creating worlds centered on the civilizations, descendants and living imagination of Indigenous America.
The work moves across cinema, dance, portraiture and historical reconstruction—without treating Indigenous history as somebody else’s prelude.
Read the story →A Southern Arawak production
Tenneka Studios
Original historical cinema centered on Indigenous American civilizations, communities and lives.
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