Suai Media Space

The little girl and little boy who recite their short histories of Timor Leste on the Ninth Anniversary of the Santa Cruz Massacre on November 12, 2000 in Portuguese and Tetun tell their own story.

Episodes 1 & 2

November 11, 2008

Video Letter to Suai 1. ‘Seeking the Light’

Next Two Episodes

Dear Friends in Suai - Adriano, Lucinda and Fernando, Sergio, Juliana, Snr and Senora da Costa, Senr and Senora Felix, Ergilio and Simao, Graci and Alberto, the two Lins, Jemi, Tersa, Chamot, Antonio - too many to name,

Today I write to you on Remembrance Day in Australia November 11, 2008. Today our whole country remembers the thousands of young men who died in Europe in World War 1. Tomorrow your whole country will remember the 271 young men and women who died in Dili at the Santa Cruz Cemetry on November 12, 1991. This letter is dedicated to peace.

The full text of this letter (which is script that will become a video letter to Suai that will be sent there with a Tetun voice over) can be found under The Documentaries/Correspondences:Video Letters to and from Suai. This video is Episode 1 in a series that will accompany the letter that document the Ninth Anniversary of the Santa Cruz Massacre.

Video made on iMovie with voices made by Lyn Anito and Zero! Lyn was in our first workshop in February 2006. Now she has a part time position with Red Cross in Suai. Anito and Zero are newcomers - and their talents came into the fore at Suai Loro Beach on the last day when I taped them singing and playing their guitar….you have to wait for that one. Meantime enjoy this and you can thank Annie Sloman for the inspiration to get everybody to make this song comic and give the video the zip it has now. They didn’t believe her it would work until they did it and everybody was pleased.

These are the first videos made by the students of YoMaTre 2008 workshop group.

Patiently edited by Jemi this hilarious animation was photographed using Photo Booth and Annie Sloman’s computer camera including just about everybody in the workshop group. Thanks to Gammarays King Tut off the Sounds of St Kilda Album 2005. In the process of tracing them for permission - so if you know them please let me know through the email address in the contacts menu on sms.

Video made on iMovie with voices made by Lyn Anito and Zero! Lyn was in our first workshop in February 2006. Now she has a part time position with Red Cross in Suai. Anito and Zero are newcomers - and their talents came into the fore at Suai Loro Beach on the last day when I taped them singing and playing their guitar….you have to wait for that one. Meantime enjoy this and you can thank Annie Sloman for the inspiration to get everybody to make this song comic and give the video the zip it has now. They didn’t believe her it would work until they did it and everybody was pleased.

Marcos Laran Kanek (Marcos’s Wound) was recorded by Marcos using Photo Booth - some software attached to MAC Books inbuilt camera.

Group Model Comik was made by Ferdy using iMovie, a digital still camera and Dili Allstars Song - Liberdade.

Read by Alberto Sequeira. Written by Filomena dos Reis October 1999.

November 10th 2007 at the Boite Cafe to commemorate the 15th Anniversary of the Suai Church Massacre.

There are corrections and additions to come to the video . In the mean time others will be uploaded soon.