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Ouvertures

Name: Ouvertures
Start: 2021-04-03T14:00:00-04:00
End: 2021-04-03T16:00:00-04:00
Location: Hunter College

April 3, 2021 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Free

An invitation to learn about Haiti’s decolonial history and fighting spirit today:

Special Film Screening & Talk Event on Haiti

Ouvertures

by Living and The Dead Ensemble

Film Streaming:

March 27 – April 3, 2021

Zoom Q&A with Filmmakers and Cast:

Sat, April 3 @2-4PM EST

W/ Louis Henderson, Olivier Marboeuf, and The Living and The Dead Ensemble (Haiti, France, and UK)

Créole haïtien-English translation available.

RSVP BY EOD APRIL 2 to get the film and Q&A zoom links (FREE but RSVP required)

RSVP

A presentation will be available here at a later date before 3/27. Come back and check it out!

Ouvertures (2019, Créole haïtien, français, 140min. Berlinale 2020, NY Film Fest 2020)

Moving from the frozen landscapes of the Jura mountains to the urban centres of Port-au-Prince, Ouvertures brings the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture back to life. In France a Haitian researcher tries to read the past within the stratigraphic layers of Jurassic limestone, whilst in Haiti a group of young actors translate and rehearse scenes from Monsieur Toussaint, a play written by Édouard Glissant, that recounts the last days in the life of Louverture dying in exile in a prison cell in the Jura, 1803. Ghosts from the pantheon of Haitian history visit Louverture on his deathbed and put him to trial. As the play proceeds the actors become possessed by their characters, and eventually the ghost of Louverture joins the group and takes them on a voyage for a new kind of exile.

https://thelivingandthedeadensemble.com/ouvertures/

Ouvertures Official Trailer 2020 from louis henderson on Vimeo.

See the main event page for the bios of the filmmakers and cast.

This event is developed as part of Third Cinema course at MFA in Integrated Media Arts, Hunter College

Organizer: Fredgy Noël (MFA candidate), Sponsoring Faculty: Reiko Tahara

We thank the Film and Media Dept at Hunter College: Kelly Anderson (Chair), Andrew Lund (Director of MFA in Integrated Media Arts), David Pavlosky (Operations Manager & Internship Advisor), Natalie Conn (Program Coordinator for IMA), Peter Jackson (Chief Digital Media CLT & Production Coordinator), Sha Sha Feng (Adjunct Assistant Professor & Sr. Web Development CLT), Chloé Lee (co-teacher-student in Third Cinema), and student-teacher helpers from the Third Cinema course. We also thank The Living and the Dead Ensemble members for creating this powerful film and making themselves available for us, Aily Nash (the film’s US Representative), and Hunter College Presidential Student Engagement Initiatives and President Jennifer Raab for making this event possible.

Details

Date:: April 3, 2021
Time:: 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Cost:: Free
Event Tags:: creole, decolonize, documentary, Édouard Glissant, Haiti, independence, Third Cinema, Toussaint Louverture

Organizers

: Fredgy Noël (Student organizer)
: Reiko Tahara (Sponsoring faculty)

Venue

: Hunter College
: Zoom -online
New York City, United States + Google Map
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