Las, Fiya

2024

HD Video, 25mins 6 secs

‘Las, Fiya’ (‘Last, Fire’), is a fictional short film which uses the genre of Horror 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’.

A solo traveller named Lil, is led by a spirit to a rural cane farm and is 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’. A tour guide, works in service of his master’s desires, in order that his life be spared the cruelty that he witnesses being enacted on others.