TEZEN

category: caribbean, narratives, short films

TEZEN

A restless daughter meets a spirit‐fish who gives her pure water but as her family devours the delicious water, they begin to suspect more than the origin of its taste. The film explores deep­‐seated fears of family connectedness and betrayal. It deals with a searching for purity, something interchangeably clean between someone you call mother, friend, lover. In retelling this old folktale everpresent in our popular Haitian psyche, I hope to tap into an undercurrent of stories of people, ancestors, relatives like an antenna.

directed by SHIRLEY BRUNO
Shirley Bruno's experimentation in cinema draws heavily from her Haitian heritage preserving her ancestral traditions and spirituality through radical image and storytelling. With her feet pointing in the direction from whence they came, she explores the everyday, the Sacred, and the violence in the things left unsaid that mark us generation after generation. She uses film to create modern myths that expose the slippery space between the physical and metaphysical world, between memory and history.

HAITI || 2017 || 28 MINS