Beyond Manzanar: Screenshots

This is a walkthrough with a still from each of the scenes in Beyond Manzanar.
See also the video demos linked from Demos/Images

In the actual interactive 3D virtual world, you can navigate on your own around each scene, choosing yourself what to look at and where to go. You follow pathways and open doors to move from scene to scene.

Camp:

Barracks and guard tower against the backdrop of the High Sierras.
The sky fills slowly with headlines of war and hate.

Poems of exile and imprisonment in Farsi, English and Japanese, caught in the barbed wire.

Through the barrack windows: archival photographs of daily life in Manzanar.

The barracks are inhabited by ghosts from the past.

Japanese Garden:

Inner landscapes: View from the pavilion into the Japanese paradise garden.

Inner landscapes: The plum tree, sign of resilience and hope.

The American Dream:

Taking leave of the homeland.

The immigration corridor: pushing through the paperwork.

The Japanese-American Dream Room: Before the War.

The Japanese-American Dream: Broken by the Internment.

Fear of Internment: The Iranian Hostage Crisis 1979-1980.

The Iranian-American Dream Room.

The Iranian-American Dream turns into a nightmare.

Iranian Garden:

Inner landscapes: The Iranian paradise garden.

Inner landscapes: Cultural refuge in the Iranian pavilion.

War and Resolution:

Video/Game/War. The only way out of the garden.

Mandala for Manzanar, Verse 1, by Zara Houshmand.