Somalia Yellow

It's a reminder of some of the more troubling aspects of the use of the Canadian military...

Belet Huen, Somalia: a gun-running, drug smuggling stop between Ethiopia and Mogadishu, and home to members of the elite Canadian Airborne Regiment doing weird duty as "Canadian Peacekeepers."
Living among them was noted Canadian artist Allan Harding MacKay, who the Armed Forces had commissioned to document the humanitarian mission through painting and, most compellingly, video. Strange fate sends MacKay there just as the Canadian Military’s most infamous act – the torture and murder of a Somali teenager – begins to unfold.

CREW

Written By: Blake Brooker
Based on Video and Text By: Allan Harding MacKay
Video and Still Images: Allan Harding MacKay
Directed and Choreographed By: Denise Clarke
Sound Design and Composition By: Richard McDowell
Technical Director and Set Design By: Ralph Christofferson

CAST

Denise Clarke: Critic #1
Andy Curtis: Critic #2
Michael Green: Critic #3 and Trooper Clayton Machee
Elizabeth Stepkowski: Critic #4 (original production)
Allan Harding MacKay: Himself