All radio works are also available for listening onsite during the festival at:
The Radio and New Media Lounge
2nd floor, TIFF Bell Lightbox
Thursday October 18 to Saturday October 20, 10am–6pm
Sunday October 21, 12pm – 4pm
Australia, 54 min
A strange relic from the 19th century has been rediscovered in a dark storage room in a French museum. The lifelike, three-dimensional cast of a young Australian Indigenous man was certain to raise many questions. This remarkable documentary takes us on a journey through the annals of colonial ethnographic history to unearth the story of a young Batjala man who travelled to Lyon 129 years ago and who became a haunting symbol of the Western idea of the primitive.
Canada, 50 min
Based on the stunning short story by acclaimed writer Richard Van Camp, I Count Myself Among Them tells the transformation journey of a Dogrib man who leaves behind a life of crime to follow the “Red Road.” This arresting radio play features a cast of 11 Indigenous performers from the Northwest Territories and across Canada.
Australia, 38 min
Host: Susan Locke
The introduction of cattle to the desert country of central Australia is one rarely told, particularly from the point of view of the Indigenous stockmen and women who formed the backbone of the industry. This engaging documentary tenderly recounts the formation of the cattle trade and the Pintubi, Warlpiri and Anmatyerr people who made it a national success. Winner of the Best Radio Documentary at the Remote Indigenous Media Festival.
Canada, 19 min
Artists and father-daughter collaborators Brian Maracle and Zoe Leigh Hopkins team up for imagineNATIVE’s second annual sound art commission. Karenniyohston – Old Songs Made Good fuses oral language techniques and sound art training into a new aural artwork that is the first-known sound art piece in the Mohawk language. With a combination of teaching and training in Mohawk as the central creative element (Maracle is a fluent Mohawk speaker currently teaching Hopkins), the pair was given carte blanche to explore their language in an entirely new way.
The result of this collaboration is a 30-minute exploration, reflection and adaptation of five pieces of well-known national and cultural anthems from Canada, the United Kingdom and the USA. The verses from each piece were translated and interpreted by Maracle and Hopkins, revamped as horn rattle songs sung by Mohawk language singers and simultaneously recorded by the artists. Accompanying each song is a dialogue between Maracle and Hopkins about their reflections on the creative process of the production.
imagineNATIVE would like to thank its partners, New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA), for their invaluable support and training during this commission and the Ontario Arts Council.
Canada, 28 min
Host: Don Kelly
Produced for CBC Radio’s Trailbreakers series, this profile reveals the passion and determination of child welfare advocate Cindy Blackstock. As the head of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada, Blackstock has made the rights of Indigenous children her life’s work. But after filing a human rights complaint in support of First Nations children, she has found herself under surveillance by the federal government.
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