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Poet Hedwig Gorski plays a storyteller who rides down the Vermilion River in a Cajun wooden boat while telling of a teenager girl in Nova Scotia who is coming of age in her father's fishing village shack. The poem is set to original blues music. He leaves his shack at dawn to fish the bay while she goes down the road to meet a "forbidden boy" she likes after practicing her kiss in the mirror. When the storytelling ends, the camera pans to the boat captain and fiddler who are in 18th century garb. The fiddles plays a Cajun melody.

The poet recorded a live performance for this soundtrack with East of Eden Band on KUT-FM radio in Austin, Texas.

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    • Author: Cointrius
    Teenager in Nova Scotia is a unique short video that illustrates Gorski's performance poem of the same title. If you expect more of a plot, you will be disappointed. The visuals are stunning and almost look like a green screen shoot since the camera is close on her face as she lip syncs and performs the poem which has off screen musical accompaniment. However, she is actually on a boat traveling along the river and the scenery is stunning on a sunny summer day.

    It is shot on the Vermilion River in Lafayette, Louisiana. From what I gather, there is a strong French Acadian connection between the families in Nova Scotia and those in Cajun Acadiana with Lafayette and surrounding areas. When the French were exiled from Canada by the English, they settled in South Louisiana.

    Since the English dialogue is a performance poem or spoken word, it has a strong narrative element about the sexual awakening of a teen girl who lives in a little fishing village with her father in Nova Scotia, Canada. I think it is amusing and intimate without being too explicit, though. At the end, the camera shows the boat captain driving an authentic looking wooden boat of a good size and the musician playing a Cajun fiddle tune. Both are in 18th century dress alluding to the ancestral connection between Nova Scotia and the Acadian region in Louisiana where French is spoken along with English.

    It is an enjoyable, sunny, amusing, and short poetic--approximately 6-minute--ride on the Vermilion River in a most exotic natural location.
  • Credited cast:
    D'Jalma Garnier D'Jalma Garnier - period Fiddler / musician
    Hedwig Gorski Hedwig Gorski - Storyteller
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