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Module 1, Post 5

APTN YouTube Channel

“Our stories, told our way.”

After reading Ginsburg’s article “Screen Memories: Resignifying the Traditional in Indigenous Media,” I was intrigued to see if some of the networks she mentioned were still operating. I found the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) has a current YouTube channel that you can subscribe to. This publicly supported and indigenously controlled national aboriginal television network, the first of its kind in the world, shares stories from an Indigenous perspective and has current news stories uploaded. They seem to have several main segments, ‘National News, Face-to-Face, APTNKids, and InFocus.’ I think that having a YouTube channel is an important step in keeping stories accessible to younger generations and available at any time.

 

Reference:

Ginsburg, Faye D., “Screen Memories: Resignifying the Traditional in Indigenous Media” in Media Worlds: Anthropology on a New Terrain, eds. Faye D. Ginsburg, Lila Abu-Lughod, and Brian Larkin, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002, 39-57.

M.1 P.4 ImagineNATIVE Film & Media

“Screen Memories” by Faye D. Ginsburg (2002) has led me to explore the Indigenous film, media, and television world a little deeper.

imagineNATIVE is the world’s largest presenter of Indigenous screen content.

“The organisation is recognised locally, nationally, and internationally for excellence and innovation in programming and as the global centre for Indigenous media arts. imagineNATIVE (legal entity: The Centre for Aboriginal Media) is a registered charity committed to creating a greater understanding of Indigenous peoples and cultures through the presentation of contemporary Indigenous-made media art including film, video, audio and digital media.” (imagineNATIVE, n.d.).

imagineNATIVE Film & Media Arts Festival launched in 2000 and presents in Toronto every October. They also present the annual imagineNATIVE Film & VR Tour across Canada with a focus on remote communities. This website has past archives of previous festival films and media, as well as an INdigital space for digital and interactive creations. You can find dramatic features, documentaries, feature-length and short format films, podcasts, audio works, VR, and interactive games all created by Indigenous artists.

One example of a film you can find on imagineNATIVE is this stop motion picture BIIDAABAN (The Dawn Comes). A beautifully compelling story about maple syrup and shapeshifters.

BIIDAABAN (THE DAWN COMES)

References

Ginsburg, Faye D., “Screen Memories: Resignifying the Traditional in Indigenous Media in Media Worlds: Anthropology on a New Terrain, eds. Faye D. Ginsburg, Lila Abu-Lughod, and Brian Larkin, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002, 39-57.

imagineNATIVE. (n.d.). Original. Indigenous. https://imaginenative.org/about

Strong, A. (Director). (2018). Biidaaban (The Dawn Comes). [Film]. CBC Gem. https://imaginenative.org/imaginenative-playlist/2020/4/6/atanarjuat-the-fast-runner-2j7rb-aw7xs