Out of the darkness, just outside the walls of the Ethiopian city Harar, a man calls several names. The small beam of a flashlight finds a group of spotted hyenas. Elias Shagiz Adonay Tesfaye's poem about love and loss sounds almost like a lament on top of the black-and-white images.
The other films show within PACT: Spectrum
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La Mazda jaune et sa sainteté
Sandra Heremans 10′A conceptual experiment on what it means to start a film with a black image, develops into a subtle personal story about the filmmaker.
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Hairat
Jessica Beshir 7′At night, outside the walls of the Ethiopian city of Harar, Yussuf Mume Saleh gets together with a group of spotted hyenas.
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How Can I Ever Be Late
Claudrena N. Harold, Kevin Jerome Everson 5′African-American students at the University of Virginia welcome the band Sly and the Family Stone at Charlottesville airport in 1973.
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Mahogany Too
Akosua Adoma Owusu 3′A vintage-feel homage to the cult classic Mahogany – a fashion-infused romantic drama – and Diana Ross's iconic portrayal of its main character Tracy Chambers.
- Filmmaker
- Jessica Beshir
- Country
- Ethiopia, Mexico, USA
- Year
- 2017
- Medium
- DCP
- Length
- 7’
- Language
- Oromo
- Producer
- Jessica Beshir
- Sales
- Jessica Beshir
- Cinematography
- Jessica Beshir, Efrem Degu
- Editor
- Charlie Hoxie
- Production Design
- Jessica Beshir
- Sound Design
- Tom Efinger
- Music
- Language Games
- Cast
- Yussuf Mume Saleh
