RHIZOPHORA
2015, Film (16:15 min)
Directed by Davide De Lillis and Julia Metzger-Traber.
Co-created & Edited by Katelyn Stiles
Co-created and performed by the Seeds of PossAbility: Hương Đinh, Mai Ngô, Long Nguyễn, Long Cảnh, Đô Lê, Tuấn Vương, Hơn Vy, Thu ận Trần, Lệ Nguyễn, Hóa Bùi, Dung Hà.
Costumes by Mai Ngô.
Camera and translation assistance from Đỗ Thu Hiền.
Production assistant and cultural translation from Jennifer Trang Nguyen.
Music by Barnaby Tree.
Filmed at Friendship Village in Hanoi, Vietnam.
Rhizophora is a poetic documentary and dance film collaboration with young Vietnamese living with disabilities caused by the chemical Agent Orange.
screened internationally http://rhizophora.weebly.com/
RHIZOPHORA
2015, Film (16:15 min)
Directed by Davide De Lillis and Julia Metzger-Traber.
Co-created & Edited by Katelyn Stiles
Co-created and performed by the Seeds of PossAbility: Hương Đinh, Mai Ngô, Long Nguyễn, Long Cảnh, Đô Lê, Tuấn Vương, Hơn Vy, Thu ận Trần, Lệ Nguyễn, Hóa Bùi, Dung Hà.
Costumes by Mai Ngô.
Camera and translation assistance from Đỗ Thu Hiền.
Production assistant and cultural translation from Jennifer Trang Nguyen.
Music by Barnaby Tree.
Filmed at Friendship Village in Hanoi, Vietnam.
Rhizophora is a poetic documentary and dance film collaboration with young Vietnamese living with disabilities caused by the chemical Agent Orange.
screened internationally http://rhizophora.weebly.com/
RHIZOPHORA
2015, Film (16:15 min)
Directed by Davide De Lillis and Julia Metzger-Traber.
Co-created & Edited by Katelyn Stiles
Co-created and performed by the Seeds of PossAbility: Hương Đinh, Mai Ngô, Long Nguyễn, Long Cảnh, Đô Lê, Tuấn Vương, Hơn Vy, Thu ận Trần, Lệ Nguyễn, Hóa Bùi, Dung Hà.
Costumes by Mai Ngô.
Camera and translation assistance from Đỗ Thu Hiền.
Production assistant and cultural translation from Jennifer Trang Nguyen.
Music by Barnaby Tree.
Filmed at Friendship Village in Hanoi, Vietnam.
Rhizophora is a poetic documentary and dance film collaboration with young Vietnamese living with disabilities caused by the chemical Agent Orange.
screened internationally http://rhizophora.weebly.com/
Katelyn (Xéetl’ee) Stiles is an artist and scholar working in the mediums of movement, film, drawing, and community-based research creation. Katelyn is of the Kiks.ádi Clan (Raven/Frog) and Kaxátjaa Hít (Herring House) of Sheet’ká (Sitka, Alaska). Women of her clan are known as Kax̲átjaashaa (Herring Ladies) and this responsibility is central to her work.
Katelyn is a PhD candidate in Native American Studies at the University of California, Davis and works as an Assistant Professor of Indigenous Studies at the University of Alaska Southeast in Sheet'ká. Her research crosses into critical Indigenous Studies, Improvisation and Performance Studies, and Feminist Science and Technology Studies.
photo by Ludger Storcks