Faya dayi / directed, filmed, written and produced by Jessica Beshir ; a Merkhana Films production ; in association with XTR, Neon Heart Productions, Flies Collective.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: CC3391DDVD | The Criterion CollectionLanguage: Amharic, Oromo, Semitic (Other) Original language: Amharic, Oromo, Semitic (Other) Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 1141.Publisher: [New York, NY] : The Criterion Collection, [2022]Edition: Director-approved DVD special editionDescription: 1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, black & white/color ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- 9781681439709
- 1681439700
- Edited by Jeanne Applegate, Dustin Waldman ; original song "Kenna uumaa" written and performed by Mehandis Geleto ; music by William Basinski, Adrian Aniol, Kaethe Hostetter.
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Dr. James Carlson Library | DVD | WORLD 963.2 F282 | Available | 33111009968906 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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 community, 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 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. In Oromo, Harari, and Amharic with English subtitles.
DVD; Dolby digital 5.1; wide screen (1.78:1).
Amharic, Harari and Oromo dialogue; English subtitles.
Edited by Jeanne Applegate, Dustin Waldman ; original song "Kenna uumaa" written and performed by Mehandis Geleto ; music by William Basinski, Adrian Aniol, Kaethe Hostetter.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2021.
Wide screen (1.78:1).
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.
Special features: New selected-scene commentary featuring Beshir and poet Ladan Osman; Three short films by Beshir: He who dances on wood (2016), Heroin (2017), and Hairat (2017), featuring an introduction by Beshir; trailer; plus: an essay by film scholar Yasmin Price.