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With Edge of Discovery, the form each story takes to reach its audience can be alive, dynamic, and entirely unique, shaped by collaboration.
Through Edge of Discovery’s approach, stories can–and have–evolved into many forms: documentary, immersive museum exhibit, virtual and augmented reality, and so on– each uniquely designed to create impact in lasting ways.
The medium isn't the starting point
A story might become something not yet imagined.
Here are a few examples of what has emerged from past collaborations.
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Multi-Screen immersive documentary museum experience
Projection, 360° video, spatial audio, and other media can transform stories into immersive installations experienced by larger audiences together. EoD explored this with Shattering the Pictures in Our Heads and Indigenizing Media in the Intermountain West. With Indigenizing Media, the creative process became part of the impact itself—bringing youth and elders together, strengthening relationships, and sparking new ideas. Two versions were created and exhibited for six months each, reaching thousands of museum visitors.
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Immersive Media Art Installation
An immersive installation might bring together virtual reality, traditional film, LiDAR and photogrammetry, print media, physical objects, interactive elements, 3D painting, and spatial audio—each contributing a different layer to the story. Edge of Discovery explored this approach with Sanctuary, combining mediums to create an experience audiences could move through, interact with, and experience in their own way.
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Augmented Reality
Augmented reality allows audiences to bring a story into their own environment—or add a new layer of story to a particular place. Edge of Discovery’s Kvoldvaka, for example, brings story into the viewer’s personal surroundings, while an AR experience developed for the Tumbleweeds Childrenss Film Festival layered the history of filmmaking onto objects found at the festival.
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Virtual Reality
Virtual reality, photogrammetry, and 360° video and other tools open new possibilities for extending traditional 2D storytelling into three-dimensional space. The same story world can move between 2D and 3D forms, allowing us to experiment with perspective, presence, and how an audience experiences a story. Edge of Discovery explored this with My Name is Savannah, using virtual reality to create a space where she could share her truth, in her own voice, and be heard.
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Traditional Documentary & Documentary Mentorship
What gets made—and why—is determined by the participants. The goal might be to preserve a history, share a tradition, capture a language, tell a story that hasn’t been heard, or simply have fun creating together. And sometimes, those stories travel far beyond the community. Colene Paradise’s film Paradise, for example, went on to be featured at larger film festivals and other community gatherings.
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Film Festival Exhibition
The Duck Valley Shoshone-Paiute Tribes took the idea even further, creating their own online film festival during the pandemic—a gathering place to share the films they had made, bring community members and filmmakers together, and open conversations about the stories themselves: what inspired them, what the filmmakers discovered along the way, and why these stories mattered.
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Graphic Print Campaign
Beginning with what they wanted to share rather than a predetermined medium, young Shoshone and Goshute language apprentices worked with Edge of Discovery to shape lessons from elders into a visual storytelling campaign. The resulting posters, created in Shoshoni with English translations, were photographed, designed, and published by the apprentices, bringing their language, learning, and voices into a form they could share.
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Immersive Media (VR, AR, XR)
Presentations & Workshops
Developed with the Utah Film Center, Moving Stories used augmented and virtual reality to help thousands of K–12 students state-wide explore how immersive media can tell stories and build connection. Students created their own AR stories, experienced Clouds Over Sidra in VR, and carried the conversation home by exploring their families’ own “moving stories.”
