Evotia-Rose: A film by The Raro Dog, Rob George for Cook I

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Play, download and edit the free video Evotia-Rose: A film by The Raro Dog, Rob George for Cook Islands Language Week.

To celebrate all our Pacific Language Weeks, Auckland Museum commissioned short films made by Pacific artists and filmmakers based on objects or memories of home. The brief for these films were left intentionally broad to allow the makers to open the vā to be navigated by the makers and knowledge-holders to let the stories, entangled in all Pacific languages, go wherever it needed to.

I wanted these videos to be made by the people for the people of the Pacific. Not an external visitor to the islands filming strangers but connected people who are telling their stories in their own ways. Objects contain so many stories, especially if they have travelled the Great Ocean of Kiwa and now, like so many Pacific peoples, call Aotearoa home.

The Raro Dog aka Rob George decided to produce a short documentary about local Cook Islander, Evotia-Rose Araiti.

Framed within a photography session, Evotia-Rose speaks personally about being a proud Cook Islander and some of the barriers to learning the language and how she overcomes them.

Produced for The Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira to celebrate Cook Islands Language Week 2020.

aucklandmuseum.com/your-museum/at-home/language-weeks

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