The Last Days of British Honduras (short version)

This film takes a heightened, enervated approach to one of the interlocking narrative threads in the filmmakers wider adaptation of Ronald Tavels 1971 play The Last Days of British Honduras, which is transposed from the jungles of Belize to the urban geography of wintertime Chicago.

| In this storyline, an interloper, a gringo in the original play, plunges into a chamber drama involving locals that touches on notions of destiny and rebirth, Meso – American mythology and the supernatural, race and the legacy of colonialism. By shifting the locale to Chicago, Sullivan and Sharmini deploy Tavels play as a vehicle for exploring an irrevocably bloody history and the uneasy state of contemporary race relations in North American cities.

Originally commissioned for The Artists Cinema project. A 47 minute version of the film is also available.