Code Talker

2001
Video installation

Code Talker is a video portrait series, in which selected people describe themselves and their work in their mother tongues—here Danish
and Navajo—and in composed (film) settings. Text panels in English provide information about the person and the topic.

Code Talker #1: Dr. Steen Rasmussen, head of Biological Engineering at Los Alamos National Laboratory, explains the way to
create artificial life.

Code Talker #2: James Peshlakai, medicine man and cultural leader of the Navajo, names and sings the spirits of life

Digital Video DV
sound, 7 min

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