Employing a straightforward photo slide-show format to quite decent effect, these Aboriginal artist profiles from the Desert Art Centre in Alice Springs, Australia are pretty engaging in their own way. The didgeridoo-based soundtrack in many of them helps. From their YouTube page, here is one of DAC’s shorter slide-shows, documenting a work in the making […]
In this installment of our weekly Tuesday sitdown on STREETZ 104.7 FM, Rick Harp and THE WORD host Lady V discuss two exciting bits of news about Aboriginal people working on both sides of the camera: one has to do with a Hollywood blockbuster expected out in July 2011; the other, an experimental short showing […]
Awesome news out of Toronto and its international film festival, TIFF. The festival has recently announced that Winnipeg-based artist Caroline Monnet will be showing her experimental short Warchild at this year’s event. The film is produced by another Winnipegger, Kevin Lee Burton, an acclaimed artist in his own right. Warchild will make up part of the […]
Next year, Adam Beach will get to share the hi-ho-silver screen with none other than Harrison Ford in the upcoming movie “Cowboys and Aliens,” described as a mix of sci-fi and western genres. It’s due to hit screens July 29, 2011. According to movieweb.com, “the film takes place in 1870s Arizona, where a skirmish between […]
Loving this short video from the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission, a montage assembling moments from the 6 month carving process behind the Stillaguamish Tribe‘s first traditional canoe in 100 years. Made of 300-year-old cedar — a century of that spent hidden underwater — the creation of the shovel-nose canoe was headed up by Lummi Nation […]
