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Zia Mohajerjasbi's Yesler Terrace Film Screens at SIFF Tomorrow
by Charles Mudede • May 22, 2015 at 9:15 am
A still from the twilight of social housing. ZIA MOHAJERJASBI
Zia Mohajerjasbi, the winner of the 2009 Genius Award for film and the
director of a number of Macklemore's music videos, will present his
first major work, Hagereseb
(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vgmeHDLX_s), tomorrow as part of
SIFF's program "Faces of Yesler Terrace."
Lyrical and filled with the solemn winter light of the Northwest, the
film is set in the '90s and concerns the small world and troubles of
an Eritrean American boy. He wants to make music, he needs batteries
for a synthesizer, he has cultural and generational conflicts with his
traditional family, and also his neighborhood is a little rough. This
small world within a world that was born from the noblest ideas of the
New Deal era is mostly gone. We are now living in a city that has
become too expensive for many in the community portrayed in this
longish short film.
See other films you should not miss in our guide to SIFF 2015.
Received on Sat May 23 2015 - 22:20:34 EDT