Ethiopia, USA
2020
9''
Summary
“Ferenj” is an afrosurreal dreamscape crafted from the director’s reconstructed memories represented as fragmented 3D artifacts. Harnessing crowdsourced data to build photogrammetry-based 3D scans of the places she calls home, Robson stitches together an impossible geography in the digital imaginary, uniting Cleveland, Ohio and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Ferenj is an exercise in liberatory thought–a brief pause, for Robson, from existing at the periphery of whiteness.
Directed by: Ainslee Alem Robson
Production : Ainslee Alem Robson & Liam Young
Festival | Tribeca Film Festival : Official Selection 2020.
Festival | Kaohsiung Film Festival : Official Selection 2020.
Festival | SXSW : Official Selection 2020.
Festival | New Images Festival : In Competition - Official Selection 2020.
Ainslee Alem Robson
Réalisateur-rice
Ainslee Alem Robson is an award winning Ethiopian-american director, writer and media artist. Working with film, VR, installations and emerging technologies in digital art, Robson’s narrative and artistic practices pursue expression for the complexities of the liminal spaces between Africa and its diasporas. Her combined backgrounds in philosophy and new media render a critical approach to her emancipatory storytelling and critical fabulations. Through a transcultural, feminist, and first-generation American lens her work focuses on decolonial narratives that deconstruct identity, perception, hierarchy and colonial legacies.
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