From Cherry English
2004, Canada, 10 min, Beta SP
Director: Jeff Barnaby
Presented as part of:
A Decade in Retrospect
10 Years of Dramatic Programming at imagineNATIVE
Oct 16 2009, 3:00PM
Al Green Theatre
From Cherry English is a surrealist Mi’gMaq allegory about the loss of language and identity to the anonymity of an urban wasteland. Traylor, a Mi’gMaq man being pulled between two worlds, meets a non-native woman who sends him on a hallucinogenic journey of masochism and self-discovery. The film explores the relationship that Traylor has with his language, culture and past.
Mi’gMaq filmmaker Jeff Barnaby’s films, Red Right Hand, the award-winning From Cherry English and The Colony, excel at pushing the boundaries of filmmaking and skank. Jeff is currently working on his first feature.
