This web site is designed as a showcase and gateway to other Internet-based work of Collis Davis.

Other work, referenced below, can be submitted on CD-ROM and VHS videotape.

Created in 1998 with Macromedia's Director 6-7, demo submitted on CD-ROM (Quicktime ver 2.11 & 3 required for proper viewing).

Created in the early 1990s, "Elegba's Stratagem" , is a ground-breaking 3-laser videodisc interactive multi-linear narrative video with speech-recognition, now available only on VHS videotape.

Collis Davis has now taken up permanent residence in the Philippines after his second Fulbright Fellowship just concluded on May 31st, 2001. He was appointed  as a part-time faculty member at De La Salle University-Taft and DLSU- Dasmarinas, Cavite during 2001-2002. His wife, violeta hughes-davis, is a freelance writer and editor. Click her link to read her latest published works.

Through the miracle of the Internet, Davis is able to present some of his work for your evaluation. Please follow all of the links on this page to see the rest of the portfolio.

Thank you very much for your interest in the material presented here.

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As a result of his exposure to Haitian culture while producing and directing Voyage of Dreams in the mid-1980s, Collis became interested in the possibilities of creating an interactive video narrative based on the myth of Elegba, African/Haitian deity of the crossroads. Using three laserdisc players controlled by speech-recognition interface (what Davis terms, "Cinematic Backtalk") and an IBM personal computer, Davis created a prototype production called Elegba's Strategem in 1991. This $45,000-funded research was groundbreaking in its implications for developing new directions in screenwriting for an interactive narrative, especially in the way it drew upon African-American rhetorical practice to develop a form of cinematic signification. .