I Dagens ETC
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http://dagens.etc.se/nyhet/roadtrip-mot-sameland
A Video Diary – 3 shorts
I learn the sami language in my way, I do it in the shape of a video diary.
Look at the three films: http://www.isuma.tv/lo/en/sapmi
Title of work: A sami in the city
Length of work (min:sec): 8.00 min
Synopsis of work:
I investigate the big city Stockholm from my perspective and in a sami way. I conduct the investigation with the purpose to learn new words. What do you call a skyscraper or a shopwindow or the concrete.
How do you say: I am walking here on the pedestrian street, but now I am entering a fashion shop. Wow! What a nice dress, gotta have it. I am carrying a dictionary and a phone… in emergencies I can call up my relatives up north and ask if there is something I don´t understand. I put post-it notes on everything I see and want to leran. Document it with my camera.
Title of work: The sami and her body
Length of work (min:sec): 4.52 min
Synopsis of work:
I investigate the body as a tool, a house, flesh. I learn what the different parts of my body are called in sami language.
I do this in my home. Me in my body among my things that I identify with. I try out my different sami attributes on my body: like the kolt (traditional dress), the belt, the shoes, the jewellery.
”You are only at home in your self” – a little being said to me. If I feel good in my body, then I feel good anywhere.
Title of work: The citysami in the woods
Length of work (min:sec): 4.40 min
Synopsis of work:
I want to learn more about the forest in a sami way. I bring along a blanket, some coffee and a sandwich and I go to the forest. I´m thinking about the sami nature creatures from the old mythology and at the same time I am learning new words in sami. I bring with me a pen. I´m writing the sami words on a tree, a rock, soil, roots. The leaves are burning in autumn colours, I make this film when the forest is at its most beautiful state.
Faces
Synopsis of film:
It is Samis whose faces are like landscapes, faces integrated in the landscape so that they are a part of a bigger entity. Music is made by Peter Svenzon and it is made only with voices, without instruments. The film is included in a dance performens ”Sami”, by Charlotte Öfverholm.
FILM INFORMATION:
Director: Liselotte Wajstedt
Original Title: Ansikten
English Title: Faces
Music: Peter Svenzon
Country of Production: Sweden
Year of Production: 2008
Running Time: ’3.29 minutes
Distibuted by Filmform, Stockholm
Koltloop
Year: 2005
Length: 3 min 18 sec
Distibuted by Filmform, Stockholm
Synopsis:
I use the samish traditional dress in different hypothetical situations and contexts. How will it be to wear it, will I find it comfortable? This movie is a part of a jojk, it is my jojk without the singing. The jojk is traditionally used to remember or dedicate something to something or someone.
A jojk, can be about longing. I have been denied to be a sami, my language has been taken away, aswell as my traditional costume and my culture. I want to recapture lost knowledge and culture.