The Red Umbrella Was Black (Work-in-Progress)

A film by CML Alums Thalia Danielson and Sasha Henry

With the filmmakers via Zoom for discussion and feedback

Location: Peterson Hall 108

Synopsis:

Picture a landscape of barrelling mountains. There, tucked in between the green, a peak of sepia-coloured stone buildings, and in the centre, a large wooden platform, empty and waiting for costumed characters to take the stage. The town is Coustouges, a French village at the border of Spain, a frontier and a place of encounter, where French and Spanish blend and become Catalan, where international spectators come to watch local villagers and actors perform together in a play during Festival 543, Coustouges’s very own theater festival. "The Red Umbrella was Black" is an ethnographic docu-fiction film that explores the porosity between reality and fiction, actor and villager, frontier and encounter. It is composed of documentary scenes of daily life and theatre rehearsals and scripted scenes written from ethnographic fieldwork. The film dances between these worlds, theatre and life.

*Note this event will begin one hour earlier than typical CML Events to accomodate for time differences*