Big Stories, Small Towns: Bongkud-Namaus, Sabah, Malaysia
Big Stories, Small Towns: Bongkud-Namaus, Sabah, Malaysia
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2016-01-01Creation date
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Funded by the Australia-Malaysia Institute of Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, FINAS-Malaysia and Screen Australia,Notes
With the aim of exploring the means by which communities can collaboratively mediatise everyday life, in this case of Dusun and Sabahan culture, the research investigated the potential for participatory media as both process and product that could amplify marginalised cultures. An iteration of the acclaimed ‘Big Stories, Small Towns’ transmedia project, this work emerged from residencies in the Dusun Kampungs of Bongkud and Namaus, Sabah (East Malaysia), and saw a collaboration between the researcher and Dusun and Sabahan filmmaker Nadira Ilana, as well as a production team of Sabahan creatives. The stories produced play a key role in preserving intangible Dusun cultural heritage, and address the homogenisation of Malayan cultural identities resulting from the 1Malaysia policy. A unique model of participatory media was used in this cultural and geographic setting, resulting in video and photographic works that materially embody the production of these new forms of knowledge. Traditional stories of everyday life in this community were re-mediated through the process of participatory media, generating new and creative outcomes that include: methodologies and understandings of Dusun culture, language and history; and ways of effectively disseminating previously hidden Sabahan culture, language and history. Funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, FINAS-Malaysia and Screen Australia, the work was released online and between June and November 2016, attracted over 30,000 visits. Through wide media coverage, the project subsequently reached over 400,000 people, including over 100,000 views of a report on the project produced by r.age Malaysia. The work was also the subject of research-based screenings at international festivals, including Freedom Film Festival (Singapore, 2016), Borneo Eco Film Festival (2016) and the George Town Literary Festival (Malaysia, 2016).Research statement
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documentary film series, website, photographsEvent
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community mediadigital storytellingdocumentaryparticipatory mediaSabah, Malaysia190205 Interactive Media200103 International and Development Communication200212 Screen and Media Culture950204 The Media950205 Visual Communication890403 Internet BroadcastingSchool of Communication and Creative Arts3605 Screen and digital media4701 Communication and media studies4702 Cultural studies
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