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SALLY HEMINGS WAKES, a short film

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Music & Words | Garrett Fisher
Direction | Alan Maskin

Choreography | Christy Fisher

Cinematography | Tim Bies
Editing | Theo Lipfert

Produced by the Fisher Ensemble.

SALLY HEMINGS WAKES focuses on the relationship between President Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings.

In April, 2012 the video and recording of this opera was presented as part of "Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: An American Origin Story, Interdisciplinarily Considered," a Bucknell University Public Lecture and Performance Series.  

The Fisher Ensemble
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