Ferenj
“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
Ainslee Alem Robson
as Narrator
Melkamayehu Belachew
as
Tewabech Belachew
as
Betelhem Shiferaw
as
Senait Robson
as
Carl A. Robson
as
Laure Michelon
as
Kate Stuteville
as
Spencer Daly
as
Cole Daly
as
