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PART III SHARING YOUR WORK
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“THE ARMOIRE” BY IVAN BECERRA (2:00)
“WISH YOU WERE HERE” BY TERI SCHEINZEIT (2:56)
I have collected dozens of two-minute digital stories from my students at The New School. Many are intensely personal, sometimes dealing with past
traumas. Many go for comedy, with a droll and spirited retelling of an embarrassing incident. The one I have chosen here combines a bit of both.
Stuart Dworeck writes:
Sedona, Arizona, known for its New Age psychic sites, was also known for a while as the home of the Digital Storytelling Festival. Kit and I presented our work one year and, the next year,
festival downtime, she took off to explore Sedona’s “other worldly” sites. Although Teri had never done a digital story before, she is a singer/songwriter and took right way to the slide show form. I helped with the production. It’s all her story, though, with original music.
“SCISSORS” BY DANIEL MEADOWS (2:12)
In the spring of 2001, the BBC funded a project called “Capture Wales,” which brought digital sto- rytelling to television and radio. The leader of this project and a powerful storyteller in his own right is photographer and teacher Daniel Meadows. Visit his site at www.photobus.co.uk. There you will find some great stories and some thoughtful writing
about the digital storytelling process. Also browse the Capture Wales site at www.bbc.co.uk/capture- wales/. The many stories produced by ordinary citizens of Wales are organized by five thematic categories: challenge, community, family, memory, and passion.
Teri recounts a hike with a new-age trail guide. We learn her mother has died and that Teri has been reading about her own sense of lose (frame #3). Teri’s hike is long and exhausting (frams 5, 6 & 7). But along the wway her mother’s voice speaks clearly with some characteristically pragmatic advice. Teri Scheinzeit
The first half of Ivan’s story tells of an antique he buys, although he and his wife cannot afford it. That night the empty armoire/bureau comes to life, terrifying Ivan in his sleep. The movie goes on to explore the anxieties from childhood evoked by the haunted piece of furniture. Ivan Becerra
Daniel Meadows’s autobiographical piece is a reflection on time and family. It begins with images of Daniel, including one where his face is pushed against the glass of a Xerox capture window. He talks about a family album with a lock of his hair carefully saved by his mother in a handmade envelope. The story then shows the only existing picture of Daniel’s father, who went out for a pack of cigarettes one day and never returned. Daniel ends with a question: Were the scissors that cut his hair the same ones that cut his father out of the group photo? Daniel Meadows
I returned to attend the festival with my wife, Teri Scheinzeit. One day during some