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Ferenj (2020)
Directed by Ainslee Alem Robson
“A Graphic Memoir in VR”
Animation · 9m
“Ferenj” is an afrosurreal dreamscape crafted from the director’s reconstructed memories questioning the meaning of home and identity as a mixed-race, Ethiopian-American growing up amidst cultural dissonance. The viewer is guided through fragments of Empress Taytu (her parents’ Ethiopian restaurant in Cleveland, OH) to the streets of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia by a speculative one-way conversation between the narrator and Empress Taytu – the restaurant personified as the historic empress. “Ferenj” harnesses photogrammetry as a tool to reclaim the 3D scanned spaces and redefine Robson’s relationship to them on her own terms.
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Ainslee Alem Robson
- Writer
- Ainslee Alem Robson
- Producer
- Ainslee Alem Robson, Liam Young
Details
- Release date
- 2020-04-17
- Runtime
- 9m
- Genres
- Animation
- Original language
- EN
- Countries
- United States of America, Ethiopia