CoconutCane Cutlass

Intersections of the autobiographical voice in the realm of mythicmemory and the personal comingle with the historical to produce a film that is neither an official historical document nor a personal history Instead CoconutCane Cutlass is a hybrid fusion of the autobiographical historical and experiential in an episodic structure that is richly textured and layered with optically printed imagery frontscreen projection recreated archival images oral narrativeshistories a spirit dance and theatrically stylized dramatic scenes The poetic fragmented style and structure of the film represent the exiles internal struggle to reconstitute her own sense of self in relation to her history and ancestry