Bridges

 

 

Director/Producer/Editor: Liz Canner

Date: 2004

Bridges, a digital public art project, was created during a residency at Paved Art and New Media Center in Saskatoon, Canada, in response to the "starlight tours" (the practice by police officers of leaving native Americans on the barren prairie in the middle of the night, in the dead of winter, to freeze to death). For the project, a native leader and a leader within the police department each donned wearcams (small video cameras worn on the side of eyeglasses) and filmed each other's lives for a day. The resulting video was presented as a large-scale outdoor video projection on the facade of the Saskatoon police department building. This generated a symbolic sense of accountability and transparency while revealing some of the inner workings of the police department. It also explored the potential of wearcam filmmaking to create deeper intercultural understanding and dialogue.

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