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.

• Ainslee Alem RobsonDirector
• Ainslee Alem RobsonWriter

• Ainslee Alem RobsonNarrator
• Melkamayehu BelachewCast
• Tewabech BelachewCast
• Betelhem ShiferawCast
• Senait RobsonCast
• Carl A. RobsonCast
• Laure MichelonCast
• Kate StutevilleCast
• Spencer DalyCast
• Cole DalyCast