imagineNATIVE Film Festival

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All new media works are exhibited at A Space Gallery, September 18 - October 24, 2009

It’s Never Too Late to Be a Cowgirl
Eve-Lauryn Little Shell LaFountain
USA, 2008, Interactive DVD

Originally shown as a multimedia gallery installation, It’s Never Too Late to Be a Cowgirl is a series of audio, film and video loops and a slideshow of ledger drawings and photographs that depicts the artist’s preoccupation with her cultural histories—a multimedia exploration of imagined pasts.

Eve-Lauryn Little Shell LaFountain (Turtle Mountain Chippewa) is an award-winning photographer and emerging filmmaker based in Los Angeles. In 2008 she received a BA from Hampshire College in Massachusetts.
Prince George Métis Elders Documentary Project
Stephen Foster
Canada, 2009, Interactive DVD

This project represents four years the artist has dedicated to documenting the culture, stories and lives of Métis elders and their families in Prince George, BC. A non-linear experimental narrative, it is designed to allow the subject matter to form a weave that is both complimentary and contradictory, shedding what it means to be Métis.

Stephen Foster (Haida/European) is a video and electronic media artist whose work deals with issues of Indigenous representation in popular culture. He is currently a Professor in the Creative Studies Department at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus.
TimeTraveller™
http://www.timetravellertm.com/
Skawennati Tricia Fragnito
Canada, 2009, Website

TimeTravellerTM.com appears to be a Web site from the future. Here are the clues: 1) it sells a device that works just like the "holodeck" in Star Trek; 2) it features episodes from a reality show shot in the year 2121; 3) The spokesmodel for the device is a Mohawk named Hunter who teleports through time to important events in First Nations history.

Skawennati Tricia Fragnito (Mohawk) is an artist and independent curator. From 1996 to 2004, she was the director of CyberPowWow, an on-line gallery and chat space. She is currently Co-Director of Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace, a network of artists, academics and technologists investigating, creating and critiquing Aboriginal virtual environments.
What They Speak When They Speak To Me
http://www.obxlabs.net/experiments/speak/
Jason E. Lewis
Canada, 2007, Website

This highly engaging and interactive Web site is about mistaken identity. At first glance, it looks like nothing more than slow moving ghostly apparitions within a browser window. However, holding down the mouse and moving around the screen triggers a string of letters and words that, with repeated attempts, form a narrative.

Jason E. Lewis (Cherokee/Hawaiian) is a digital media artist, poet and software designer. He founded both Obx Laboratory for Experimental Media and Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace, and is an Associate Professor of Computation Arts at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec.