Tank Standing Buffalo
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He is of mixed Potawatomi and Black Canadian descent, and his mother is a member of the Caldwell First Nation in Southwestern Ontario.[3] He had a troubled childhood and spent some time in detention as a young offender following a robbery.[4]
Career
His 2020 short film RKLSS centred on his time as a young offender, shedding light, particularly on the inhumanity of solitary confinement practices, and premiered at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival.[4]
He followed up in 2022 with SAVJ, a prequel film about the childhood experience of being taken into foster care that first set him on the path to his troubled teenage years.[5] The film featured Corey Feldman voicing Standing Buffalo's character and premiered at the 2022 Calgary International Film Festival.[6]
MONSTR centred on his experience following his wife's death of a brain aneurysm, when he confronted his inner demons walking in the forest along the British Columbia Coast before taking a year-long apprenticeship with a wood carver.[2] The film premiered as part of HBO Max's Only You in March 2023.[1]
In addition to animation, Standing Buffalo has also worked in sculpture, illustration, tattoo art and tiki mug design.[4]