ABSTRACT
A project presenting one's own culture implies that one can hardly evade one's own background. The author explores his own management of the influence one has on empirical material in the production of audio-visual meaning in a film script. The aim of the project was to make a documentary film that would show women as participants in the world's first northern lights observatory. The author demonstrates similarities between the life-giving qualities of women and traditional Sami forms of life. A scholar of Sami background sitting at her computer 'communicating' with the dead women in aurora borealis, which according to legend is the home of the dead souls. The author argues that in pragmatic semiotics the interpreter cannot escape participation in the process of meaning. The reflexive turn figured prominently in women's research, raising the question how one deals with the ontological dilemmas that follow. The Haldde script had elements of reflexivity due both to its political content and its form.
