The interactive VR experience Biidaaban: First Light by Anishinaabe filmmaker Lisa Jackson offers a powerful meditation on Indigenous futurism, relationality, and cultural resurgence. Set in a rewilded future Toronto, the experience is narrated in Indigenous languages (Anishinaabemowin, Wendat, and Mohawk) and invites viewers to witness a world where the natural environment has reclaimed the city. Rather than following a linear or individual-driven plot, the story is spatial and experiential, deeply rooted in traditional Indigenous storytelling values such as interdependence, cyclical time, and the living memory of land. It challenges Western storytelling conventions by centering silence, presence, and ancestral continuity, suggesting that the past, present, and future coexist in ways that are deeply Indigenous. In this sense, it incorporates traditional practices while also reshaping them through the possibilities of immersive, digital narrative. The digital medium is integral to Biid...
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