Video (3)

View All Tags

Hello Cool World Intern Julius Booth creates short film from Archival footage

By Julius Booth On August 21, 2013 | 0 Comments

Verifying/Tkwáynai7m - A Short film by Julius Booth

Before packing my things and heading off to Montreal, I interned at Hello Cool World during a remarkably sunny July. The perfect send off from a city I’ve called home for so long. Accentuating the great month was the great time I had in the HCW office. Thanks to Kat and David for making me feel super welcome. Kat and I had quite a few ideas for what I could do at the beginning of the month but it turned out editing was my thing. When comparing the following video with my first its obvious how much I learned in such a short period of time.

I’ve been in Montreal for almost two weeks and I’m writing this only now because of the whirlwind of activity that’s involved in renting and furnishing an apartment. The hard work is behind me and a crazy first week of university awaits. Enjoy this short film on what was easily the most important day of the entire Uts’am/Witness Project.

Editors Note: We've been thrilled to have Julius for part of the summer and we're very proud of the short film he's made. Looking back at the events of 2001 and doing new interviews with Chief Bill, Nancy and myself was a great way to be reminded of what, with the participation of over 10,000 people, the Uts'am project accomplished. We wish Jules all the best at McGill and will miss having him around!

Watch the film after the break...

sylvi macCormac video, as she records

By Katherine Dodds On April 15, 2013 | 0 Comments

Thank you sylvi! I was inspired to post this blog about sylvi's new work as I listened to her beautiful song and poetry as it came into my inbox this morning.

"I care for you like an old ancient tree, you are the feather falling to me..."

As sylvi's press release states: "See Through Publishing in association with VAMS, is pleased to announce the release of The Feather (video). Feather will feature in an upcoming book/dvd that will include footage of sylvi, who has multiple sclerosis, when she was standing and playing guitar."

If I'm not mistaken this footage of sylvi from the past, is of the Uts'am Witness era! Her beautiful lyrics speak to the power of the forest behind her, to inspire and to sustain.

sylvi participated in the Uts'am Witness project from the early days.

You can buy the Uts'am Witness CD she created as fundraiser for the project (proceeds now going to our Picturing Transformation book Project) on the Hello Cool World Webstore.

"Sylvi is an inspiration to the world. A superb composer and sound artist who easily risesabove every conceivable obstacle to create memorable and demanding projects with extremely positive values" -Charlie Richmond

sylvi's music runs from folk to cinema-for-the-ears soundscapes. Her songs have a particular depth. This video is particularly cool for how it showcases sylvi's talent, but also the recording facility itself at Vancouver Adapted Music Society's fully-accessible recording studio.

Working on the Picturing Transformation Trailer

By Katherine Dodds On July 07, 2011 | 0 Comments

David and I are excited to be working with Nancy & Chief Bill, editing the trailer for the book that will be coming out in 2013. Early this year we brought together many of the key founding members of the project and video taped interviews with them. David's logged all those interviews and we are excited to be finally working with this material as Nancy is scanning the photos that will be the main content of this book.

There is a lot more work to come but it feels like this project is really getting rolling, and it is exciting! We came up with a working title: Picturing Transformation, nexw7ayentsut.

As Nancy puts it: ‘Picturing Transformation’ speaks to the change that was inspired from working together with a First Nations community on their own northern territory over a ten year time span, as well as acknowledging the land itself: nexw7ayentsut in Coast Salish language literally means ‘place of transformation’.