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Faya Dayi
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- Amharic
- Subjects (All):
- African studies.
- Medicine.
- Health.
- Documentary films.
- Genre:
- Documentary films
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (streaming video file) (119 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
- Place of Publication:
- The Criterion Collection 2021
- [San Francisco, California, USA] Kanopy Streaming 2023
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- digital
- video file MPEG-4 Flash
- Summary:
- A sublime work of trance-state cinema, the debut feature by the Mexican Ethiopian filmmaker Jessica Beshir is a hypnotic immersion in the world of rural Ethiopia, a place where one commodity-khat, a euphoria-inducing plant once prized for its supposedly mystical properties-holds sway over the rituals and rhythms of everyday life. As if under the intoxicating influence of the drug itself, FAYA DAYI unfurls as a hallucinogenic cinematic reverie, capturing hushed, intimate moments in the existences of everyone from the harvesters of the crop to people lost in its narcotic haze to a desperate but determined younger generation searching for an escape from the region's political strife. The film's exquisite monochrome cinematography-each frame a masterpiece sculpted from light and shadow-and time-bending, elliptical editing create a ravishing sensory experience that hovers between consciousness and dreaming
- Notes:
- Title from title frames
- Film
- In Process Record
- Originally produced by The Criterion Collection in 2021
- Publisher Number:
- 14353102 Kanopy
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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