This project is normally presented as an interactive multi-channel video art installation. The installation uses simultaneity and overlapping video narratives and audio to create inter-textual references. Audience members can choose material by navigating the screens or by just watching as the video plays through the sections of the DVD. The installation includes multiple kiosk style stations while at least one video projection plays the main narrative elements on continuous loop. The overlapping video and audio content combine in the space creating a complicated visual and auditory environment controlled by the users. There are hours of interviews with Métis Elders and community members as well as traditional music and cultural workshops. As individuals interact with the different materials new inter-textual inferences occur between the various screens expanding the form and concept of documentary filmmaking. The project represents a community that while dispersed is coherent in its bonds to community and place.
Screen grab of DVD Studio Pro demonstrating level of interactivity
Diagram illustrating the interactive structure of the DVD
Video frame with interactive menu
Video frame from split screen Island Cache sequence
Video frame from split screen Island Cache sequence
Video frame from Red River West sequence
Video frame from Lac St. Anne Sequence.
Behind the scene documentation of Picnic and Medicine Walk
Elders discussing old school house on the Island Cache
Interactive gallery station
View of gallery installation
Gallery visitors using stations with projection in background
Excerpt Island Cache single channel sequence one
Excerpt Island Cache single channel sequence two
Excerpt project Legacy
Excerpt Lac Ste Anne sequence
Full version of Island Cache video available under Selected Video Works.