A nurse longs for her island in a cold, forbidding city. The ghosts of migrant laborers sing songs of lament and hope. A group of young people contemplate their relationship to their island. An island vampire exports life-sustaining home soil across the diaspora. Members of a family journey through blood-stained ancestral land. And a young father awaits word from his wife across the sea.
Narrated by the artist’s aunt, Drax Sycorax shows Drax Hall’s modest Jacobean structure, St. Jude’s Cemetery where most of her paternal ancestors are buried, and Carlisle Bay, the port where merchant ships brought most enslaved people into Barbados.
- Year2024
- Runtime2 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryBarbados
- PremiereWorld
- GenreHybrid
- DirectorRenee Royale
A nurse longs for her island in a cold, forbidding city. The ghosts of migrant laborers sing songs of lament and hope. A group of young people contemplate their relationship to their island. An island vampire exports life-sustaining home soil across the diaspora. Members of a family journey through blood-stained ancestral land. And a young father awaits word from his wife across the sea.
Narrated by the artist’s aunt, Drax Sycorax shows Drax Hall’s modest Jacobean structure, St. Jude’s Cemetery where most of her paternal ancestors are buried, and Carlisle Bay, the port where merchant ships brought most enslaved people into Barbados.
- Year2024
- Runtime2 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryBarbados
- PremiereWorld
- GenreHybrid
- DirectorRenee Royale