Faya dayi, a film by Jesica Beshir ; a Merkhana Films production ; in association with XTR ; in association with Neon Heart Productions ; in association with Flies Collective ; directed, filmed, written and produced by Jessica Beshir
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Faya dayi, a film by Jesica Beshir ; a Merkhana Films production ; in association with XTR ; in association with Neon Heart Productions ; in association with Flies Collective ; directed, filmed, written and produced by Jessica Beshir
Language
amh
Characteristic
videorecording
Main title
Faya dayi
Medium
DVD
Oclc number
1334496337
Responsibility statement
a film by Jesica Beshir ; a Merkhana Films production ; in association with XTR ; in association with Neon Heart Productions ; in association with Flies Collective ; directed, filmed, written and produced by Jessica Beshir
Runtime
119
Series statement
The Criterion collection, 1141
Summary
A sublime work of personal vision, the debut feature by the Mexican Ethiopian filmmaker Jessica Beshir is a hypnotic documentary immersion in the world of Ethiopia's Oromo and Harari communities, places 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 influence of the drug itself, Faya Dayi unfurls as intoxicating, trance state cinema, capturing intimate moments in the existence 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 director's exquisite monochrome cinematography each frame a masterpiece sculpted from light and shadow and the film's time-bending, elliptical editing create a ravishing sensory experience that hovers between consciousness and dreaming
Technique
live action
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Contributor
Subject
- Documentary films
- Foreign films -- Ethiopia
- Oromo language films
- Harari (African people)
- Oromo (African people) -- Ethiopia
- Ethiopia -- Social life and customs
- Harari language films
- Foreign films
- Videodiscs for the hearing impaired
- Khat + Religious aspects
- Amharic language films
- Hārer (Ethiopia) -- Social conditions
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- Foreign films -- Ethiopia
- Oromo language films
- Harari (African people)
- Oromo (African people) -- Ethiopia
- Ethiopia -- Social life and customs
- Harari language films
- Foreign films
- Videodiscs for the hearing impaired
- Khat + Religious aspects
- Amharic language films
- Hārer (Ethiopia) -- Social conditions
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