Video

Appin nikamowina

Cheryl L'Hirondelle

2016, 04:42 minutes, colour, nēhiyawēwin and English

TAPECODE 430.03

An experimental music video in honour of the Appin Massacre (1816), where people of the Dharawal nation were chased off the cliffs for settler expansion of their country. Using Google Earth and Google Streetview images,  computer-generated jump-cut splicing created raw footage virtually filmed to depict a journey from Turtle Island to Australia, zooming in on the road from the current-day Tharawal Local Aboriginal Land Council to the Appin Gorge. The song and the background audio was generated by later walking part of the road in real-time opposite the cliffs as part of the L'Hirondelle's ongoing practice of 'singing land'. The English lyrics were generated by cutting and re-editing original historical texts by the perpetrators of this crime as a way to have these men acknowledge their wrong-doing and express their regret.

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