summer. fall. winter. spring
（2019）

summer. fall. winter. spring is a poetic film about an Oromo daughter as she walks through four seasons of Minnesota, transporting herself through tea ceremonies, grass offerings, singing and dancing to commune with her ancestors. The imageries of the film weaves together smoke, tea cups, a tattooed hand, moving grass, close-ups of faces and eyes, men and women dancing in community, a lone woman by the lake, in order to show the making and preservation of Oromo ceremonies outside the cultural context of Ethiopia.

a film by Tensae Fayise Abrahim and Xiaolu Wang
poetry, voice over, music, and production design: Tensae Fayise Abrahim
cinematography and editing: Xiaolu Wang
VO recording : Vin Lu
music editing: Stephanie Watts
​grant support: Intermedia Arts and MN Center for Urban Regional affairs (CURA)