Plot
“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.
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Cast
Ainslee Alem Robson
Narrator
Melkamayehu Belachew
Tewabech Belachew
Betelhem Shiferaw
Senait Robson
Carl A. Robson
Laure Michelon
Kate Stuteville
Spencer Daly
Cole Daly
