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Ancestral echoes reverberate across the films in this programme, embodying various forms of resistance and resilience, from the Florida Everglades to a Jamaican sugar plantation to the Amazon rainforest.
Las, Fiya (Last, Fire) is a fictional short film that uses the horror genre to explore the subjects of ancestral trauma, dispossession, and the power of return/retrieval. Shot largely on an existing sugarcane farm in Jamaica, the film weaves historical methods of harvesting sugarcane and sugar production with the cinematic concept of the “origin story”. At the film’s center is Lil, a solo traveller, who is led by a spirit to a rural cane farm and reborn as a super-villain. A trans-dimensional evil entity preys upon a group of unsuspecting tourists, with their fate being revealed in a final heightened scene, where all are gathered on the cane farm for “reaping time”.
- Year2024
- Runtime25 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryJamaica, United Kingdom
- Subtitle LanguageEnglish
- DirectorKat Anderson
Ancestral echoes reverberate across the films in this programme, embodying various forms of resistance and resilience, from the Florida Everglades to a Jamaican sugar plantation to the Amazon rainforest.
Las, Fiya (Last, Fire) is a fictional short film that uses the horror genre to explore the subjects of ancestral trauma, dispossession, and the power of return/retrieval. Shot largely on an existing sugarcane farm in Jamaica, the film weaves historical methods of harvesting sugarcane and sugar production with the cinematic concept of the “origin story”. At the film’s center is Lil, a solo traveller, who is led by a spirit to a rural cane farm and reborn as a super-villain. A trans-dimensional evil entity preys upon a group of unsuspecting tourists, with their fate being revealed in a final heightened scene, where all are gathered on the cane farm for “reaping time”.
- Year2024
- Runtime25 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryJamaica, United Kingdom
- Subtitle LanguageEnglish
- DirectorKat Anderson