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Seventh Nepal International Indigenous Film Festival

NIIFF-2013 Festival Theme & Date Announced

The Indigenous Film Archive (IFA) is proud to announce its seventh edition of the Nepal International Indigenous Film Festival (NIIFF)-2013.

Reimagining the Archive: Rethinking Archival Practice and Theory

This is Taz Morgan, the Media Archive Intern at WITNESS. Teague Schneiter thought the IsumaTV community would be interested in this post that I wrote for the WITNESS blog. 

IsumaTV at the Association of Moving Image Archivists/International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives Annual Meeting - 2010

At this year's annual meeting of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA), as IsumaTV's Archivist, I spoke about the importance and challenges and opportunities that are afforded through indigenous archiving.

I discussed our own Digitizing the Inuit and Aboriginal Media Archive project, as well as examples from other indigenous-designed community archives. 

Please see here for the complete presentation. 

 

IsumaTV at Open Video Conference

IsumaTV are headed to New York this weekend for the second annual Open Video Conference. The event brings together a wide array of participants, from technologists, academics, entrepreneurs, artists, filmmakers, video creators, remixers, activists, archivists, as and online video audiences.

The DIAMA Blog

Channel manager: Teague Schneiter

The DIAMA Blog is an ongoing conversation related to the topic of indigenous media archiving. It will include posts related to the preservation and access of indigenous media via web technologies, as well as ways that archives and archival content is being used commuities, such as language preservation. We will also write about developments and perspectives within the DIAMA project.

The content of each post and each comment represents the views of that author and does not necessarily reflect the views of DIAMA or IsumaTV.

ᐸᖕᒧᖕᒐ PAMUMGA The beginning

Recorded in 1991, this song is from a CD collection of traditional ajaja songs sung by Elders of Igloolik.

ᐸᑉᐸᔾᔨᑦ PAAPPAJAAT Kept falling

Recorded in 1991, this song is from a CD collection of traditional ajaja songs sung by Elders of Igloolik.

ᓱᒥᒃᓕ SUMIGLI What then?

Recorded in 1991, this song is from a CD collection of traditional ajaja songs sung by Elders of Igloolik.

ᓱᕐᓕᒪᑯᐊ SUURLIMAKUA? Why these?

Recorded in 1991, this song is from a CD collection of traditional ajaja songs sung by Elders of Igloolik.

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