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People from northern British Columbia shared their lives in the award-winning documentary film
KONELĪNE:our land beautiful
Then, artists from southern BC created new works, inspired by these northern stories.
First, a quick tour
NEXTChoose STORY for a curated experience. Each story pairing takes about 15 minutes to complete.
NEXTChoose EXPLORE to navigate the site freely. Use the map to choose what you want to see.
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At any time, you can click the compass below to 'flip' your perspective between North and South.
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Choose how you'd like to experience North through South.
NEXTChoose STORY for a curated experience. Each story pairing takes about 15 minutes to complete.
NEXTChoose EXPLORE to navigate the site freely. Use the map to choose what you want to see.
NEXT
At any time, you can click the compass below to 'flip' your perspective between North and South.
CLOSEKONELĪNE:our land beautiful is a sensual, cinematic celebration of northwestern British Columbia, and all the dreamers who move across it.
Some hunt on the land. Some mine it. They all love it. Set deep in the traditional territory of the Tahltan First Nation, KONELĪNE captures beauty and complexity as one of Canada's vast wildernesses undergoes irrevocable change.
An art film with politics, drama, and humour, KONELĪNE:our land beautiful explores different ways of seeing-and being. A guide outfitter swims her horses across the vast Stikine River. The world's biggest chopper flies 16,000-pound transmission towers over mountaintops. KONELĪNE's characters delight while smashing stereotypes: white hunters carry bows and arrows; members of the Tahltan First Nation hunt out of a pickup with high-powered rifles. There are diamond drillers-both Native and white-and elders who blockade them. There's a Tahltan son struggling to preserve a dying language, and a white guy who sings "North to Alaska" to his stuffed moose.
KONELĪNE:our land beautiful does not lecture; it surprises with cinematic action and visual poetry. It is a bold experimental film from some of Canada's leading documentary artists.
That question led to an inspiration - to explore life in the North through the interpretive lenses of five urban storytellers from the South. Then, to present those stories in an interactive website where users could easily share what they experienced.
Each urban artist is paired with one of the people from the film, then asked to create an inspired interpretation in their own art form. Interviews with each southern artist, video clips of the works-in-progress, and final artwork were recorded and integrated into the North through South web experience.
Using the juxtaposition of scenes through an immersive journey, North through South invites users into the story while offering an opportunity to learn more about one another.
HUMANS are a YVR electro pop duo. Using samples of Oscar Dennis speaking with his father in their language, HUMANS laid down a brand new track.
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Oscar is a Tahltan linguist working on his PhD. He's racing against the clock to document his traditional language while the elder speakers are still alive.
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iHeart is a stencil graffiti artist from Vancouver, BC. His work focuses on social and observational commentary. After watching Orville and Elliott hunt for moose, iHeart created a new piece in Stanley Park.
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Orville and Elliott are an uncle/nephew pair from the Tahltan Nation. They're both musicians. They're also moose hunters, when there's game to be found.
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Kristin Urbanheart Grant is a body paint artist whose work has taken her around the globe. Using paint on a human model, Kristin interprets Heidi the northern hunting guide and her horses.
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Heidi makes her living as an outfitter, leading hunters on horseback expeditions every summer. She's been guiding in Northern BC for over 35 years.
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JB is a spoken word artist, hip hop maker and activist. She's using beats and her voice to interpret the story of Tahltan diamond driller Kelly.
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Kelly's a young member of the Tahltan Nation, working as a driller. The skilled job earns a decent livelihood for his family. But the job has its downsides, too.
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Shay Kuebler is a choreographer, dancer and performance artist from Vancouver, BC. He interprets the scene of the linemen installing the Northwestern Transmission Line.
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In Northern British Columbia, Linemen wrestle to install poles for the Northwestern Transmission Line, which supplies electricity to dozens of remote communities.
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