RECENT WORK
weather and climate
Produced: January 2014
The activities of subsistence hunters, fishers and gathers are dramatically effected every day by weather and changing climate conditions. Having accurate information to gauge ice thickness, wind, temperature can make the difference between success and failure, safety and danger. Weather and Climate takes us to seven Northwestern Alaska Native communities (Kotzebue, Kivilina, Point Hope, Noatak, Ambler, Buckland and Deering) to find out how people there deal with and adapt to ever changing and less predictable environmental conditions.
Running Time: 35 minutes
The activities of subsistence hunters, fishers and gathers are dramatically effected every day by weather and changing climate conditions. Having accurate information to gauge ice thickness, wind, temperature can make the difference between success and failure, safety and danger. Weather and Climate takes us to seven Northwestern Alaska Native communities (Kotzebue, Kivilina, Point Hope, Noatak, Ambler, Buckland and Deering) to find out how people there deal with and adapt to ever changing and less predictable environmental conditions.
Running Time: 35 minutes
Tradition in Tune
Produced: March 2013
When gold was discovered in Alaska over a hundred years ago, miners, trappers, and traders who came to seek their fortunes brought their fiddles and an old country music tradition with them. The Athabascan people they interacted with heard the music, picked it up and claimed it for their own. For the past thirty years Native Fiddlers have gathered in Fairbanks Alaska to trade tunes, hear each others' unique styles and perform for a grateful audience.
Tradition in Tune takes viewers to the thirtieth anniversary Athabascan Fiddle Festival, a four-day, non-stop expression of Native unity, culture and values.
Running Time: 17 minutes
When gold was discovered in Alaska over a hundred years ago, miners, trappers, and traders who came to seek their fortunes brought their fiddles and an old country music tradition with them. The Athabascan people they interacted with heard the music, picked it up and claimed it for their own. For the past thirty years Native Fiddlers have gathered in Fairbanks Alaska to trade tunes, hear each others' unique styles and perform for a grateful audience.
Tradition in Tune takes viewers to the thirtieth anniversary Athabascan Fiddle Festival, a four-day, non-stop expression of Native unity, culture and values.
Running Time: 17 minutes
Iñupiaq Language and culture
Produced: May 2013
These six Iñupiaq Language and Culture films, edited for the Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center, are designed to help teach Iñupiaq language and culture through discussions with Elders over traditional objects that are on loan from the Smithsonian in DC and currently housed in the Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center area of the Anchorage museum. You will hear several Iñupiaq dialects spoken between eight Elders during a workshop in January of 2012.
Running Time: Approximately five minutes each
These six Iñupiaq Language and Culture films, edited for the Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center, are designed to help teach Iñupiaq language and culture through discussions with Elders over traditional objects that are on loan from the Smithsonian in DC and currently housed in the Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center area of the Anchorage museum. You will hear several Iñupiaq dialects spoken between eight Elders during a workshop in January of 2012.
Running Time: Approximately five minutes each
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