Re-membering Maroonage

Re-membering Maroonage from Ashley McFarlane on Vimeo.

First full clip from a doc I'm working on called Re-membering Maroonage. A film on family, migration, and re-membering heritage across land, lives and waters.

I'm usually pretty cut-heavy. Which will get interesting as I film family. It's harder to edit family. I know if I was watching this film by someone else I'd get a little bored. I hope the images and lights floating by are a nice distraction.

As the video says I'll be going to Jamaica this January to document a mini-family reunion and the annual celebration at Accompong on January 6th. I'll also be talking to locals, and more specifically a man named Michael Grizzle about the Maroons. I couldn't find that much info so I thought, given this opportunity I have to dig the info out myself, with the help and support of course of family and friends.

A museum is also being built down there, so I will offer up my communications skills, and equipment to the community. I really support communities telling their own stories so would like to have them learn to use cameras and videos. If needed do some editing. And just submerge myself in my heritage and vibe.

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Shot on my Canon 5D mark ii. 50mm lens 1.2