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Third Horizon Presents

Field Notes

17m

Directed by Vashti Harrison • 2014 • United States, Trinidad and Tobago

FIELD NOTES is an experimental portrait of the ghosts embedded in the culture of Trinidad and Tobago. Structured as a visual and aural field guide to the spirits, jumbies, shapeshifters, and bloodsuckers that inhabit the island’s lore, it focuses on the places where the natural and supernatural collide.

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