Description

An Autoethnographic Transmedia Journey from Xinjiang [XUAR] to Harmony: a Work in Progress

A Stranger Here Myself is an evolving, longitudinal project examining inter-cultural identity construction.  Borne of an Australian foreign teacher’s lived experience in China since first arriving in Xinjiang [XUAR] in 2011 to returning to Australia for its multicultural Harmony Week festival in 2025 on a break from teaching Inter-Cultural Communication at a university in China.

Comprising a core vlog, shop and free PDF download range, it is fully accessible through the Project Index link on the website’s home page / header menu.  Additions to this project – videos, blogs, PDF downloads, article links are added to this central index as they eventuate.

A free to access and view evolving transmedia archive, A Stranger Here Myself is curated, designed and content-managed by former Australian National Film & Sound Archive [NFSA] SAR Research Fellow, author of the first comprehensive study of representations of disability in Australian film.  Inspired by alternative, neuro-divergent ways of perception, his own experimental autoethnographic filmmaking evolved from low-budget documentaries of Adelaide, South Australia’s disability arts and LGBT spoken word performance poetry to inter-culturally evocative montagist works such as Being in Time.  For more about his background in disability studies, please read this blog on A Stranger Here Myself‘s website.

Welcome to join and share your inter-cultural / multicultural journey.  View / read the introductory brochure here free.