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Title: Singapore Island Cruise Ferry 5: Main Island to St. John's Island
Keyword: Water, Landscape / Skyline, Islands, Coast, shore
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Main island skyline to the left. Foam from the ferry's movement visible in the bottom right corner.

Title: Singapore Island Cruise Ferry 9: Main Island to St. John's Island
Keyword: Water, Landscape / Skyline, Coast, Land Reclamation, economy, Islands
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Close-up of the main island city skyline. Cruise ship on the left.

Title: Singapore Island Cruise Ferry 34: St. John's Island to Kusu Island
Keyword: Landscape / Skyline, boundary, Sailing, Water, Islands
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Ferry window looking out at the ocean. Main island city skyline in the background. Frothy water near the bottom edge of the window.

Title: Jordan Abel Interview 1: Clip 1
Keyword: Colonisation, Landscape / Skyline, Totem Poles
Date: 2018-01-19
Description: In this clip, Jordan Abel discusses his relationship to Vancouver as a place and how his family histories and traumas are tied to Vancouver and the legacy of colonial violence. He discusses the placement of Indigenous art throughout Vancouver (and the totem poles in Stanley Park in particular) and the complexities around displaying Indigenous art and tradition in such a public space, weighing accessibility against voyeurism.

Title: Singapore Island Cruise Ferry 11: Main Island to St. John's Island
Keyword: Water, economy, Landscape / Skyline, Coast, Land Reclamation
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Main island city skyline. Cruise ship to the left. Marina Bay Sands on the right.

Title: West Kowloon Cultural District Video 14
Keyword: Water, Boats, Shore, Rocks, Landscape / Skyline
Date: 2018-03-17
Description: Video of a boat moving from left to right through the shot until it disappears at about 00:15. Other moving boats and the city skyline are visible in the background. Duration: 1:00

Title: Star Ferry Video 3
Keyword: Water, Boats, Landscape / Skyline, City, Movement
Date: 2018-03-12
Description: Video of multiple boats on the water with city skyline in the background; the Hong Kong Cultural Centre slowly moves out of view of the shot on the left side. Duration: 00:33

Title: Wayde Compton Reading: Excerpt from "The Lost Island" found in The Outer Harbour
Keyword: Colonisation, Landscape / Skyline
Date: 2018-01-23
Description: Wayde Compton reads a scene from his short story "The Lost Island." In this scene, the characters Jean and Fletcher consider the newly emerged volcanic island off Vancouver's coast and Fletcher proposes they go to the island as an act of anti-colonisation. This story appears in Compton's 2014 book of interconnected short stories The Outer Harbour.

Title: Jordan Abel Interview 3: Clip 3
Keyword: Landscape / Skyline, Colonisation, Poetic Intervention
Date: 2018-01-19
Description: In this clip, Jordan Abel delves into his writing process for Place of Scraps, particularly how he came to use erasure techniques on Marius Barbeau's text Totem Poles. From this a discussion ensues on how readers can, or should, approach and read Place of Scraps. Abel's poetry makes use of fragmented words and images alongside more traditional narrative (for an example, please refer to Jordan Abel's Reading).

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.

Title: Singapore Island Cruise Ferry 10: Main Island to St. John's Island
Keyword: Water, economy, Landscape / Skyline, Coast, Land Reclamation, Islands
Date: 2018-03-01
Description: Main island city skyline. Cruise ship on the left. Foamy water in the bottom right (caused by the ferry).

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