wawa
Total run time: 06:00
HD video, stereo, color
2014
Featuring speakers of chinuk wawa, an Indigenous language from the Pacific Northwest, this film begins slowly, patterning various forms of documentary and ethnography. Quickly, the patterns tangle and become confused and commingled, while translating and transmuting ideas of cultural identity, language, and history.
Featuring: Evan Gardner, David Edwards, Susanna Ciotti, Henry Zenk
Producing Advisor: Crystal Erlendson
Texts: The Chinuk Wawa Dictionary