TUCSON FOLKLORE TOURS
Tucson Folklore Tours is Tucson's first "immersive tour" focusing on local history and folklore, as well as the broader Sonoran Desert region. TFT artfully advances the traditional history tour by implementing the latest audiovisual technology to create an immersive, educational experience through digital storytelling. Using innovative video projection techniques and augmented reality tools, Abraham Cooper guides participants on a journey through deep time, highlighting significant yet often overlooked events in Tucson's past.
JIVHIDAG (ARRIVAL): A SHORT
Look closely and you will see a cat and mouse sculpted onto the facade of San Xavier Mission. Legend holds that when the cat catches the mouse, the world will end. Abraham Cooper has interpreted this to mean the end of continental isolation, ushering in the dawn of European contact, which has altered indigenous life in ways once unimaginable. Appropriately, the cat and mouse remain locked in a perpetual state of chase, signifying the history of one culture subsuming another, rather than completely erasing it.
In this short, Abraham conveys a glimpse into the past that attempts to visually capture the cultural tension, as well as syncretism, that emerged after the arrival of the Spanish into the Pimería Alta. The juxtaposition of Colonial Spanish and ancestral Tohono O'odham architecture/iconography represents spaces of power for both cultures respectively. The entanglement of these worlds, now inextricable, gave birth to the liminal landscape so familiar to us in this region today.
HIEROS FILMS | WEDDING VIDEOGRAPHY
Wedding highlight film produced for client.
MANY JOURNEYS: A TRIBUTE TO JIM GRIFFITH
Music: "Equity" by Dedekind Cut
Excerpts from my final conversation with Jim Griffith on August 12, 2021.
Excerpts from my final conversation with Jim Griffith on August 12, 2021.