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A storyboard for Totem Talk, a film produced by Annie Fraziér Henry in 1997 (item from her Media Artist and Activist Documentation file)
A storyboard for Totem Talk, a film produced by Annie Fraziér Henry in 1997 (item from her Media Artist and Activist Documentation file)

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Artist/Activist
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Language(s)
Related & Mentioned Works
Communities and Nations
Organizations
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Events & programs
First Nations Video Collective1998English"Si"Elu"taxwFirst Nations Video Collective, Dreamspeakers: A Celebration of Aboriginal Arts, Free Speech TVentry of Si"Elu'taxw into Dreamspeakers Festival;
Free Speech TV (Boulder, CO) licensed and screened :Si"Elu'taxw"
Dreamspeakers 1998
Annie Fraziér Henry2000, 1991, 1992, 1998, 1995, 1994, 1993EnglishLegends, Visions, Words of Wisdom, Totem Talk, Singing Our Stories, Ladies of the Inlet, It's up to usshíshálh (Sechelt) Nation
Blood Nation
Free Speech TV, Native American Film & Video Festival, Native Education Centre, National Museum of the American Indian, Full Regalia Production, Omni Films, Dreamspeakers: A Celebration of Aboriginal Arts, National Museum of the American Indian, herland, WALELA, Urban Native Indian Education SocietyPeace Arch News Vol. 25 No. 31 (featuring write up on "To Return:The John Walkus Story") as well as other community newspapers and formal press releases; Handouts for "Legends: Siwash Rock as told by Chief Simon Baker "(distributed by Video Out); "Visions" envelope containing publicity stills, press release and exhibition pamphlets; "Words of Wisdom" envelope with event handout;
Full Annie Fraziér Henry biography ca. 2000, list of screenings of "Totem Talk" for producer payments; "Singing our Stories" envelope with press release;
List of contents for films/video pr kits ca. 2000;
"Totem Talk" envelope; "Ladies of the Inlet" envelope - sales cover original;
Photos: Rita Coolidge, Priscilla Coolidge, Laura Satterfield, WALELA (1c) Mary Stella Bare Shinbone Women Singers and Drummers of Old Agency Blood Nation, Cardston, Alberta (1b) Pura Fe (1a) Native American Film & Video Festival NYC 1995;
Original credits for "Words of Wisdom"; STEP magazine feature 1991, storyboard for "Totem Talk", correspondence with various museums as part of programs; marketing plan to BC Films for "Totem Talk"
"STEP"" Magazine feature, Native American Film & Video Festival 1995, Sundance Film Festival 1999, 42nd International Leipzig Festival, 23rd Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, Shared Visions: A Film & Video series National Museum of the American Indian, videographie 1994, herland: 8th Annual Feminist Film & Video Festival, "...here are you instructors; Aboriginal Film and Video", Prairie Tales, The Peace Arch News
TJ Cuthand2019, 1998, 1999English"Helpless Maiden Makes an ""I"" Statement", Working Baby Dyke Theory, Untouchable, Colonization: The Second Coming, earthflesh, The Future is So BrightVideo Pool, V TAPEIsolated Landscapes Postcard, curated by Kathy Rae Huffman at VIVO; LIVE Biennale 2019;
IMAGEOUT The Rochester Lesbian & Gay Film and Video Festival;
various rejection letters from WiFT 1999; acceptance from OUtFest - Native Youth Program;
Jury award in experimental category for Untouchable 1999 NYC Expo; partially filled out festival catalogue
Outfest - Native Youth Program, Isolated Landscapes: Video by Prairie Women (1984-2009), Live! Vancouver's International Performance Art Celebration 2019, IMAGEOUT: Rochester Gay Film & Video Festival 1998, Pieces d'identites, 1999 Women on Women International Film Festival, Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival 1999, 33rd Annual new york exposition of short film and video, Imagenation 2000
Ruth Cuthand1998, 2000National Gallery of CanadaFragile Electrons program - 1998; Ovni 2000 programFragile Electrons: Twenty Years of Collecting Video Art, Unknown Frame Observatory
Terry Haines2015EnglishCoyote X, Bloodstorm, Dragonfly, Warrior, Skin for LifeVideo Out, MediaNetCoyote Rising program - Flux Media Gallery, Victoria, BC; Q&RI specters and echoesCoyote Rising: An Exhibition of Video Works by Terry Haines 2015, "Q*R I, spectres and echoes"
Mike MacDonald1984, 1992EnglishAmax and the Nishga, Edzerza Family Reunion, George Erasmus with David Garrick, First Nations and First Ministers, Fish Story, Images and Indians, Kitsault means Place of Controversy, Native Human Services Training Program, Nishga Survival, Offshore Oil...who Decides?, Tahltan 1982, Tahltan 1983, Tahltan Elders 1982, Tahltan Songs, To Whom it May Concern, We are People Not Numbers, Butterflies, Fight and ResistNishga, TahltanSatellite Video Exchange Society, Video In StudiosElectronic Totem still promo shots and correspondence re installing the video displays including list of videos and a press release; list of contacts to mail Electronic Totem promo to.Electronic Totem @ Video Inn, Electronic Totem: Native Videotape List, New Video Works by Mike MacDonald
Marjorie Beaucage1995, 1994, 1992English, creeAyumee-AAwach Oomama-Mowan Speaking to their mother: A portrait of an artist as community changer, good grief, bingoFirst Nations Video Access Program (FNAP), Video In Studiosworkshop materials for 1994 Beaucage workshop with FNAP including CV and press releasesMaking Our Own Medicine: Values and Practices in Working with Communities, Working from the Inside Out, Making my Own Medicine: The Video Work of Marjorie Beaucage, The Verve
Rebecca Belmore2014, 2019englishAudain Art museumDivergence exhibition catalogue and postcard @ Mackenzie Gallery, nindinawemaganidog all of my relations Rebecca Belmore July 2 - August 3rd 2019 @ gruntnindinawemaganidog (all of my relations), divergences
Loretta ToddenglishMy Dad's DTSMy Dad's DTS, video installation proposal
Dana Claxton1998, 2008, 1996, 1997englishBuffalo Bone China, The Shirt, Bloodlines, I Want To Know Why, Tree of Consumption, Grant Her RestitutionDreamspeakers: A Celebration of Aboriginal Arts, Aboriginal Film Awards, Margaret Mead Film & Video Festivalnews clippings - 1998, 2008; nomination for Buffalo Bone China, 3rd Annual Aboriginal Film Awards; her work; Disappearance of the Real program (hosted by Zachery Longboy); American Museum of Natural History Film & Video Festivalopen call VI: Disappearance of the Real, Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival 1996, LA Freewaves Celebration of Independent Video and New Media 1998, Georgia Straight: Light & Shadow Feature 1999, Vancouver Sun: Aboriginal Heroes Feature 2008
Zachery Longboy1994, 1993, 1992, 1996, 1995EnglishFrom Another Time Comes One, Living Tree, Choose Your Plague , eating LunchFull Circle; Video Pool; Weetamah, Video Out"Queer Confines: Mapping Out the Territory" programs (1994);
"Living Tree" photographs; Peggy's Festival 1993 (Halifax) - "Choose Your Plague" shown; Premiere Manifestation Internationale Video et Art Electronique 1993 (Montreal) -"Eating Lunch", "Chinaman's Peak", "True Inversions" shown;
Videographe Festival 1994 Montreal - "World Comes One" shown;
Museum of Modern Art Department of Film New Canadian Video Event 1994 - "Eating Lunch" "Words of Wisdom" shown
Images 92 program;
"Full Circle First Nations Performance" presentation of Margo Kane's "The River" including full cast and crew credits;
correspondence and thank you letters to Longboy;
"From Another Time Comes One" photos;
news clipping from Weetamah (1994);
Video Out copy for Choose Your Plague;
Zachary Long Boy CV;
Mississauga Business Times and Mississauga News 1996 coverage of "Searching for my Mother's Garden", advertisements in Slate for "Searching for My Mother's Garden"
"LIving Tree" descriptor in Dialogue;
7th Annual Vancouver Mayworks Festival of Working People and the Arts featuring Indigenous video programing catalogue;
Exhibiting Cultures (1995) poster featuring Zachary Longboy;
MAAD/Cleo Reece1994EnglishKeepers of the Land, Footsteps of the Ancestors, Nunaqpa (Going Inland), A Sacred Trust, Northwest Rebellion, Joseph's Justice, Incident at Restigouche, Ballad of Crowfoot, Legends and Villages, Who were the Ones, Our Living Treasures, Temagami: A Living Title to the Land, Words of Wisdom, From ANother Time COmes One, Dreamcatcher, Aboriginal Film & Video Art Alliance PSAs Seven SistersMendel Art Gallery, Saskatchewan Indian Cultural Centrecatalogue and poster from the "...here are you instructors; Aboriginal FIlm and Video" show curated by Marjorie Beaucage in 1994 ;
Cleo Reece bio;
"...here are you instructors; aboriginal Film and Video"
Cease Wyss1995Ten Skakel (my Baby)Video OutTen Skatel folder with payment receipts and Video Out Distribution sheet;