mother tongue media | tawhida tanya evanson

Shot at the iconic Montreal Biosphere, CYANO SUN SUITE is a concert film in seven poems performed to improvised hipjazzsoulbopfunkhop. Directed by Stefan Verna; written, performed and produced by Tawhida Tanya Evanson; and featuring improvised music by members of Kalmunity Vibe Collective, this 43-minute visual album is an afro-ancestral dream of outer space told through word, sound and science. TRAILER COMING SOON!

From culture starters on Earth to the concept of freedom in outer space, CYANO SUN SUITE contemplates an Afrofuturist worldview as poems move up the food chain, or rather, through scientific levels of organization. Metaphors begin at the cellular (Culture Starter); then move onto tissue and organ systems (Incision); organisms (Ten Quintillion); population and community (Null Island); ecosphere and biosphere (The Mother of All Jams); planets and solar system (Extraterrestrial Diamonds); and end in the galaxy and observable universe (Sun Solo).

With Jean-Michel Frédéric (keys), Erik Hove (saxophone), Mark Haynes (bass), Jahsun (drums), Elli Miller Maboungou (percussion), and guest poet Kaie Kellough. Sound by Audio Coara and editing by Sharif Mirshak.

AWARDS

|||||  CYANO SUN SUITE (full film) - Cannes World Film Festival WINNER; Vesuvius International Film Festival WINNER; Golden Wheat Awards WINNER; International Music Video Awards WINNER: Andromeda Film Festival WINNER; Brooklyn International Short Awards SEMI FINALIST; San Francisco Arthouse Short Festival SEMI FINALIST; Brooklyn International Short Awards SEMI FINALIST: Istanbul Movie Awards SEMI FINALIST: Art Film Spirit Awards NOMINEE: NY Arthouse Film Festival NOMINEE

|||||  Extraterrestrial Diamonds (short) - Majorca Atlanteans Award WINNER; The Gladiator Film Festival Best Experimental & Best Music Video Composer Award WINNER; Tabriz Cinema Awards NOMINEE

|||||  Culture Starter (short) -  Short Way International Short Film Festival OFFICIAL SELECTION; International Sound Future Awards Best Music Video WINNER; International Music Video Awards WINNER; Prague International Music Video Awards FINALIST

|||||  Null Island (short) - Crossings International Film Festival OFFICIAL SELECTION; Rapport Festival OFFICIAL SELECTION: Hamilton Black Film Festival OFFICIAL SELECTION: Dream Machine International Film Festival FINALIST
 

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et lettres du Québec