Coconut/Cane & Cutlass 1994

Overview

Intersections of the autobiographical voice (in the realm of mythic/memory and the personal) co-mingle with the historical, to produce a film that is neither an "official historical document" nor a "personal history." Instead, "Coconut/Cane & 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, front-screen projection, re-created archival images, oral narratives/histories, a