Atopias: The Homeless Wanderer

Film

by Daniela Yohannes & Julien Béramis

Details

Martinique, Guadeloupe / 2023 / 26mins / Experimental / English, Italian and Tigrinya

The Homeless Wanderer is the second part of Daniela Yohannes’ Atopias trilogy, which grapples with geographies of migration, generational memory, and trauma. Yohannes does double duty, playing a woman trekking the Caribbean’s harsh natural landscapes in search of a transformational portal.

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About the Directors

Daniela Yohannes

Daniela Yohannes is a interdisciplinary artist. Her work reflects upon the racialised movement and conditional belonging of African diaspora, using her own Ethiopian-Eritrean heritage as a lens. Through abstract portraiture and storytelling across multiple media, Yohannes explores the overlap of individual and collective subconscious and desire, and the destruction caused by displacement. Her work dwells on alternative Black realities, considering the bonds between herself, her family and other communities through magical symbolism.
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Julien Béramis

Julien Beramis is a multidisciplinary artist, hailing from Guadeloupe and France. His work combines; Acting, writing, directing, music and performance. He useing these diciplines as tools to explore the complex history of the isalnd. Using intuitive writing, observations of nature and pushing the limits of his body through dance and performance to reach a trance and pathways for healing.
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