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Title: Shazia Hafiz Ramji Interview 1: Clip 1
Keyword: Poetic Intervention, Surveillance, Water
Date: 2018-01-28
Description: In this clip, Shazia Hafiz Ramji discusses the circumstances of beginning to write Port of Being, her debut poetry collection and winner of the 2017 Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry. She recounts a story of seeing a child interact with a public transit cop and how she noticed the various forms of surveillance in such a public space. She also describes visiting the Teck Gallery, where she wrote most of the poems in her collection. At the time of this interview, Ramji's collection was not yet released.

Title: Stanley Park 33
Keyword: Rocks, Water, Ecology
Date: 2018-01-31
Description: Image of large rock partly covered in plant life and mostly submerged in shallow water.

Title: Stanley Park 53
Keyword: Water, Boats, City, Ecology
Date: 2018-01-31
Description: Image of water, docked boats, and city skyline with tree branches in the foreground at the top of the shot.

Title: Rita Wong Interview 1: Clip 1
Keyword: Water, Solidarity, Community, Embodiment
Date: 2018-02-01
Description: Rita Wong discusses her activist work as a water guardian and how her beliefs in reciprocity and interconnections between humans and land resources inform her activism. She speaks about the motivations behind her involvement with water preservation.

Title: Vancouver Harbour 40
Keyword: Water, Ships, City
Date: 2018-01-26
Description: Image of a ship beside Canada Place with North Vancouver in the background across Vancouver Harbour.

Title: Cindy Mochizuki Clip 1
Keyword: Site-specific, Memory, Migration, Space, Water, Ecology, Family, Boat, Globalization, Displacement
Date: 2019-06-07
Description: In this clip, visual artist Cindy Mochizuki comments on her work called Paper. Mochizuki outlines the inspiration and history of this project and this discussion leads to topics of space, globalization, ecology, memory, and the trans-Pacific.

Title: Stanley Park 111
Keyword: Water, Boats, City
Date: 2018-01-31
Description: Image of water with docked boats and city skyline in the background.

Title: Vancouver Harbour 16
Keyword: Water, City, Mountains
Date: 2018-01-26
Description: Image of North Vancouver from across Vancouver Harbour.

Title: Kitsilano Beach 10
Keyword: Water, Ships, Boats, Birds
Date: 2018-01-24
Description: Image of ships, boats, and a group of birds on the water.

Title: Stanley Park 67
Keyword: Shore, Coast, Rocks, Water, City
Date: 2018-01-31
Description: Image of rock shore by Vancouver Seawall with Canada Place across the water in the background.

Title: Stanley Park Video 26
Keyword: Water, Shipping Industry, Ships, Helicopters, Buoys, Sound
Date: 2018-01-31
Description: Video of a ship moving on the water with harbour cranes in the background; a helicopter flies through at about 0:40. Duration: 1:05

Title: Tower Beach Ambient Sounds
Keyword: Water, Waves, Shore, Sounds
Date: 2018-02-02
Description: Audio of the sound of the waves hitting the shore at Tower Beach. Duration: 0:41

Title: Stanley Park 57
Keyword: Ecology, Barriers, Shore, Coast, Water, City
Date: 2018-01-31
Description: Image of a memorial, a chainlink fence with a sign stating "No Trespassing" in French and English, and trees and tall grass near the shore. Deadman's Island and city skyline are in the background.

Title: False Creek 55
Keyword: Shore, Ecology, Water
Date: 2018-01-22
Description: Image of plant life on the rocky shore of False Creek.

Title: False Creek Video 6
Keyword: Water, Boats, City
Date: 2018-01-22
Description: Video of a single boat moving slowly on the water with buildings and Cambie Bridge in the background. Duration 0:52

Title: Vancouver Harbour 17
Keyword: Water, Ecology
Date: 2018-01-26
Description: Image of Vancouver Harbour with Stanley Park and North Vancouver (including pile of yellow sulphur pile) across the water.

Title: Downtown Vancouver 2: Behind Residence Inn
Keyword: City, Construction, Development
Date: 2018-01-30
Description: Image of construction being done on the side of a high-rise building surrounded by other tall buildings.

Title: Portside Park Video 2
Keyword: Water, Coast, Boats, Sounds, Birds, Shipping Industry, Harbour
Date: 2018-01-30
Description: Video of boats at a dock by some small buildings on the water by Portside Park. Harbour cranes are visible in the background on the right side. Duration: 0:45

Title: Portside Park 9
Keyword: Ecology, Coast, Movement, City, Water
Date: 2018-01-30
Description: Image of a path with grass and blue lampposts on one side and shore on the other, and with city skyline in the background.

Title: Tower Beach 2
Keyword: Shore, Rocks, Water, Trees
Date: 2018-02-02
Description: Image of water and a rock shore with logs and trees on the left side of the shot.

Title: Tower Beach 1
Keyword: Shore, Rocks, Water
Date: 2018-02-02
Description: Image of water and a rock shore.

Title: Tower Beach 14
Keyword: Shore, Rocks, Water, Waves
Date: 2018-02-02
Description: Image of small waves coming towards a rock shore.

Title: Polygon Gallery 1
Keyword: Art, Perspective
Date: 2018-02-01
Description: Image of Jordan Abel's "Cartography" from the bottom of a set of stairs.

Title: Wayde Compton Clip 3
Keyword: Ecosystem, Land, Law, Power, Language
Date: 2018-01-23
Description: This section of the interview starts by discussing the way Compton integrates multiple genres into his works. The conversation then ties in the topic of genre theory with a discussion of discourse and language use.

Title: Canada Place Video 5
Keyword: Water, Coast, Boats, Mountains
Date: 2018-01-26
Description: Video looking across the water towards Stanley Park. A boat moves towards the right side; another boat enters the shot from the right at about 0:25. Duration: 0:50

Title: TELUS World of Science 12
Keyword: Questions, Art, City
Date: 2018-01-22
Description: Image of a giant red question mark symbol tilted towards the right side of the shot with False Creek and city skyline in the background.

Title: Portside Park Video 1
Keyword: City, Movement
Date: 2018-01-30
Description: Video by Terminal Avenue in Vancouver looking out the window at the buildings as the SkyTrain moves past them. Duration: 0:32

Title: Kitsilano Beach 24
Keyword: Sand, Particles, Shells, Shore
Date: 2018-01-24
Description: Image of sand, small shells, and very small rocks.

Title: Stanley Park 2
Keyword: Water, Boats, City, Ecology
Date: 2018-01-31
Description: Image of water and multiple docked boats with trees and city skyline in the background.

Title: Stanley Park 99
Keyword: Totem Poles, Indigenous Culture, Relationality, Positionality, Trees, Colonialism
Date: 2018-01-31
Description: Image of totem poles and trees. There is a sign stating "Please STAY OUT of the Totem Pole Area" at the bottom left of the shot.

Title: Portside Park 21
Keyword: Water, Distance
Date: 2018-01-30
Description: Image of Vancouver Harbour with North Vancouver across the water in the background.

Title: Vancouver Harbour 79
Keyword: Water, City, Ships
Date: 2018-01-26
Description: Image of North Vancouver and ships across Vancouver Harbour.

Title: Polygon Gallery 5
Keyword: Knowledge, Art
Date: 2018-02-01
Description: Image of a wall providing information about the N. Vancouver exhibition.

Title: Kitsilano Beach Video 5
Keyword: Water, Birds, Rocks, Coast
Date: 2018-01-24
Description: Video of water against a shore of large rocks in Kitsilano Beach; a lone bird floats by and then dives underwater in the background at 0:27. Duration: 0:36

Title: Stanley Park 51
Keyword: Water, Shore, Coast, Movement
Date: 2018-01-31
Description: Image of a small set of stairs from the path along Vancouver Seawall down to the shore.

Title: Stanley Park 21
Keyword: Rocks, Shore, Water
Date: 2018-01-31
Description: Image of small rocks on a muddy shore.

Title: Canada Place Video 19
Keyword: Water, Harbour, Ships, Boats, Shipping Industry, Mountains
Date: 2018-01-26
Description: Video recorded on Canada Place, in Vancouver, containing a pier at the foreground, harbour cranes on the right, and ships by North Vancouver on the left side of the background. Duration: 0:47

Title: Vancouver Harbour 18
Keyword: Water, Ecology
Date: 2018-01-26
Description: Image of Vancouver Harbour with Stanley Park and North Vancouver (including pile of yellow sulphur powder) across the water.

Title: False Creek 22
Keyword: Water, Boats, City
Date: 2018-01-22
Description: Image of docked boats with city skyline in the background.

Title: Rita Wong Interview 2: Clip 2
Keyword: Water, Poetic Intervention, Culture, Preservation, Embodiment
Date: 2018-02-01
Description: Rita Wong explains that she hopes to foster empathy and generate cultural change through her poetry.

Title: False Creek 79
Keyword: Water, Boats, Ecology
Date: 2018-01-24
Description: Image of False Creek opening out into Burrard Inlet.

Title: Kitsilano Beach 31
Keyword: Water, Ships, Boats
Date: 2018-01-24
Description: Image of ships and boats on the water with mountain skyline in the background.

Title: Vancouver Harbour 60
Keyword: Water, Shipping Industry, Boats, Ships
Date: 2018-01-26
Description: Image of a ferry and ships on the water with shipping cranes and shipping containers in the background. The side of Canada Place is on the left side of the shot and a Port of Vancouver sign is on the right side of the shot.

Title: Waterfront Station 2
Keyword: Movement, Transportation, City
Date: 2018-02-01
Description: Image of trains and train tracks with city skyline along the right side.

Title: Vancouver Harbour 37
Keyword: Water, Structure
Date: 2018-01-26
Description: Image of water and the lower side of Burrard Landing.

Title: Stanley Park Video 17
Keyword: Water, Coast, City, Rocks
Date: 2018-01-31
Description: Video of rocks in the water in Stanley Park near Hallelujah Point; Canada Place and harbour cranes are visible in the background. Duration: 0:16

Title: False Creek 17
Keyword: Water, Birds, City
Date: 2018-01-22
Description: Image of a large group of birds on the water under Cambie Bridge with boats and buildings in the background.

Title: Stanley Park Video 20
Keyword: Water, Coast, Shore, Rocks, Sand
Date: 2018-01-31
Description: Video of small waves hitting the rocky sand shore in Stanley Park near Hallelujah Point. Water flows towards the waves from the bottom of the shot. Duration: 0:36

Title: Stanley Park 66
Keyword: Water, Coast, Ecology, Shipping Industry
Date: 2018-01-31
Description: Image of water and part of the Vancouver Seawall with trees by the path and shipping cranes and Canada Place in the background.

Title: Jordan Abel Interview 4: Clip 4
Keyword: Landscape / Skyline
Date: 2018-01-19
Description: In this conclusion of Jordan Abel's interview, he restates the complexity of places like Vancouver, and acknowledges that a place can be simultaneously beautiful and devastating.

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