[Anthropgrad] AIATSIS: Documentary Screening, Wednesday lunchtime 8th April.

[Ragazzi Rossella]

Welcome to the screening and 
apologies for cross posting.
Best regards,

Rossella Ragazzi


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 AIATSIS: Documentary Screening, Wednesday lunchtime 8th April.
Venue: Mabo room, AIATSIS Building, Acton Peninsula, Canberra.

 
Please find attached and below notification of a special documentary
screening at AIATSIS, Wednesday 8th of April, 12:30 til 2pm.
 The director will introduce the film and there will be time for
discussion afterwards. 
 
The screening is free and there is free parking outside AIATSIS.
 
AIATSIS

 

Special Documentary Screening

'FIREKEEPERS'

With introduction by the Director

 

Wednesday 8th April 2009

 

12:30pm              Introduction by Director, Rosella Ragazzi 

12.40pm              Screening of 'Firekeepers'

13.40 - 2.00pm  Discussion with Director 

 

Venue: Mabo room, AIATSIS Building, Acton Peninsula, Canberra.

 

 

ABOUT THE DOCUMENTARY

This film narrates the meeting with Sara Marielle Gaup and Lawra Somby,
two young performers of yoik (Sami chanting technique), born in the north
and the south of Sápmi (the cultural nationhood of Sami people in North
Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia). 

 

They have come together through a creative musical project called
"Adjágas" which in Sami means "the state between sleep and awakening".  In
this peculiar state one can unveil reality and tune into the most profound
and original yoiks. Adjágas, in this way bring the musical-lyrical
practice of yoik toward the international musical scene by performing with
musician of different horizons, and adapting its performances to the
context of reception. 

 

The protagonists express different ways of life and concerns, relating
also to what it means to be young artists with an Indigenous background,
having to work a way into the musical industry. It is also a film about
what in the waves of the past is worth struggling for understanding, and
how yoik brings together everyday life, politics and spirituality and
becomes a language healing the pain from the colonial history of the past.

 

ABOUT THE SAMI NATION 

Sapmi is the Indigenous name for the Sami (Lapp) nation. An imagined
nation, Sapmi is the result of a political Indigenous movement in Norway,
and defines an historically and ecologically existing circumpolar and
sub-Arctic region where Sami people have dwelt for a thousand years. A
nation where national borders between Norway, Finland, Sweden and up to
the Kola peninsula in Northern Russia were in the past fluently crossed by
fishermen and reindeer herders and their clans. Currently, seven Sami
languages are still spoken, but some of them, like the Southern Sami, have
only 200 speakers today.

 

The largest Sami population of Norway lives in the national capital, Oslo.
But those who call themselves Sami, despite assimilation policies ongoing
in Scandinavia even in the 1970s and subsequently, continue to travel and
maintain their links with rural or coastal regions where they have
extended family connections.

 

The joik, a traditional Sámi chanting form, has recently become more
widely heard, mainly due to the popularity of the band Adjagas. This
documentary film explores a fascinating, evolving mode of performance that
is a healing force for the Sámi people. The documentary follows young
joikers Sara Marielle Gaup and Lawra Somby of Adjagas from the stage to
their homes to reveal how issues of colonization, identity, endangered
language and spirituality are bound up with their music.

 

The film is part of a larger research made by a team of visual
anthropologists who worked together with the protagonists and their
families for more than two years. It has been shown worldwide (USA, Nepal,
Taiwan, Europe, Russia, New Zealand) and also carefully disseminated by
the authors through seminars, debates and festivals with particular
interest in Indigenous issues.

 

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR AND PRODUCER

Rossella Ragazzi is a temporary Visiting Scholar at the Research School of
Humanities, ANU. Her research themes are: youth and childhood, migration
and minorities. She is also an ethnographic filmmaker, exploring the field
of  media applied to anthropology, crosscultural cinema and museology. She
has conducted research in Sapmi since 1999. She is currently Research
Fellow, Dept. of Cultural Sciences, Sami Ethnographic unit, University of
Tromsoe Museum, Norway. The presentation and the screening are organized
in collaboration with the Research School of Humanities, ANU.

 

 

'Firekeepers' is directed by Rossella Ragazzi, with Lawra Somby and Sara
Marielle Gaup.SONAR FILM Norway 2007 . Produced by Britt Kramvig. 57 min,
Sapmi, Norway

 
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