Virtual Exhibit | Dane Wajich – Dane-zaa Stories and Songs: Dreamers and the Land (2007) - Amber Ridington

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This collaborative multimedia virtual exhibition integrates subtitled Dane-zaa and English video narratives, interpretive e-text, photographs of the production process, recordings of songs, and contemporary and archival images of traditional lands in order to showcase Dane-zaa culture and address present concerns faced by the community as they negotiate legacies of colonialism and a changing relationship to the land.

The project represents the possibilities of digital media to represent intangible heritage and is an example of applied ethnography facilitating a community-defined process of documentation and self-representation.

Funded by the Virtual Museum of Canada, the Doig River First Nation, the Volkswagen Foundation, North Peace School District #60 and the North East Native Advancing Society.

CREDITS: Collaborators include:

Doig River First Nation youth, elders and cultural experts;
ethnographers;
multimedia professionals;
linguists;
educators.

ROLE: Co-Producer, Exhibit Curator, Community Consultant, Project Coordinator and Production Mentor (with Kate Hennessy) and Fiscal Manager.

SCREENINGS

Society for Visual Anthropology Film, Video and Interactive Media Festival, San Fancisco, 2008.
- JEAN ROUCH AWARD WINNER
imagineNATIVE Film+Media Arts Festival, Toronto, Canada, 2008.
- HONOURABLE MENTION – BEST NEW MEDIA
Gottingen International Ethnographic Film Festival, Germany, 2008
UBC Ethnographic Film Unit 2nd Annual Film Festival, Vancouver, 2008

Amber Ridington | Folklorist & Consultant

Projects

Virtual Exhibit | Dane Wajich – Dane-zaa Stories and Songs: Dreamers and the Land (2007)