Kat Anderson (b.1980) is a visual artist, musician and filmmaker who lives in the UK. Anderson works under an artistic and research framework called “episodes of horror”, which uses the genre of horror to discuss both historic and contemporary representations of mental illness and trauma as experienced by or projected upon Black bodies and Black communities.
Las, Fiya (Last, Fire) is a fictional short film that uses the horror genre to explore the subjects of ancestral trauma, dispossession, and the power of return/retrieval. Shot largely on an existing sugarcane farm in Jamaica, the film weaves historical methods of harvesting sugarcane and sugar production with the cinematic concept of the “origin story”. At the film’s center is Lil, a solo traveller, who is led by a spirit to a rural cane farm and reborn as a super-villain. A trans-dimensional evil entity preys upon a group of unsuspecting tourists, with their fate being revealed in a final heightened scene, where all are gathered on the cane farm for “reaping time.”
Las, Fiya will play as part of the Shorts Block: Your Hands Were Built from Memory
