Merlina the Queen’ah is an ancient afrofuturistic ghetto wizard who sits on the intergalactic planetary counsel of Photon Light. A celestial being in this world but not of it. She brings interstellar messages from the cosmos to wake the sleeping giant earthlings aka “grasshoppahs” to activate their full potential in order to defeat nefarious motives of “energy bandits”. Thousands of years ago, she served with great Queens and Pharaohs of Ancient Kemet to help broker their extraterrestrial relationship and create one of the oldest and greatest high civilization on planet earth.
She has been dormant for two decades, but recently in the year 2020 she was summoned during the great pandemic to help “grasshoppahs” face the prophecy of when “graveyards yawn and hell breathes contagion to the world”
WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY LIZA JESSIE PETERSON
ORIGINAL SCORE BY STADWJCK FEAT. NONA HENDRYX
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS SEKOU LUKE + NONA HENDRYX + LIZA JESSIE PETERSON
DIRECTED BY SEKOU LUKE
GAFFER DUELL DAVIS
ART DIRECTION BY JAMILA HOLMAN + TERRY KENNARD BARNES
PROJECTION DESIGN BY JAMILA HOLMAN
COSTUME DESIGN BY XENOBIA BAILEY
EDITED BY SEKOU LUKE STUDIO
ADDITIONAL COMPOSITION EXCERPT FROM OAK + IVY
FILMED LIVE AND UNCUT AT DEER STUDIO (NYC) ON NOVEMBER 25, 2020