Ototeman

A first version of this performance triptych was initially created for a concert which had the violins of the Holocaust witnesses and Gowka drums of emancipation from Enslavement of Guadeloupe converge on the same stage. In this renewed, edited and improved filmic version, each performance of the triptych was shot on a slave cemetery—or as I prefer to call them, a mass grave—in Guadeloupe (French West Indies). This performance film aims at raising awareness about those territories where still lay thousands, millions of bodies, desecrated through ages, desintegrating over centuries, under the earth, the soil, the sand… Forgotten forever, without sepulchres, without memories, without history.

A Syncretism in Kayryouacou

In this Carib Futuristic performance art presentation, the spirit of Carriacou’s Shakespeare Mas is transmuted into a digital vocal chorale. Two participants evaluate their place in the world from their small island “wings” of Grenada.

Just 3 People Talking

Not many Black women own a piece of the Amazon rainforest in our protracted age of gendered and racialized extraction. This filmic meditation introduces audiences to one such person, Aunty Joan, whose possession of 357 acres of precious land remains far from settled. Informed by Afro-Indigenous Guyanese Spiritualist or Komfa philosophies and practices, Joan is also Dolly, her ancestor Jumbi thought to be bassidy, or “flighty.” A journalist and novelist now in her eighties, Joan has been working for decades along with her spirit guide Bassidy Dolly to realize her dreams for Yukuriba Heights, a once-self-sustainable farm and projected arts commune.

Ramona

Feeling unprepared to play the role of a 15-year-old pregnant girl living on the outskirts of Santo Domingo, an actress decides to sit down with pregnant teenagers all over the country. Throughout the process, as the girls lay out the stories of their lives on camera, they start to influence the production of the film itself, changing its course.

Vincenta B

Vicenta, a Cuban woman with the ability to see into the future, lives harmoniously with her only son until he decides to leave the country. Immersed in a profound crisis, Vicenta departs for a voyage to the heartland of a country where everyone seems to have lost their faith.

Raw Materials

Raw Materials is a coming-of-age drama. Sixteen years old Malik, a fashion prodigy struggles to understand his sexuality in a homophobic community.

Canto Errante (Wandering Song)

A little girl narrates the myth of original sin: A tear in the garden of Eden. On the other side of that crack, a cold bare bedroom. On the faded wall, a little piece of lost paradise.

Un Gavillero en la Sierra (A Gavillero in the Sierra)

Tormented by bloody events, a gunman flees in search of his freedom.

Pienso Mucho en la Foto que no Tomé (I Think a Lot about the Pictures I Didn’t Take)

Due to the lack of memories in Samuel’s childhood, the need to create a file of his close circle, his generation and context is generated; Composing a film diary of brief scenes, portraits of his loved ones, of the city of Santo Domingo and La Romana, based on images made by him and his friends. Thus creating his own memory. It is a celebration of life, a gesture of love towards his environment and those around him.

Petit Frère (Little Brother)

In a small village of French Guiana, Andy and Rosa have not heard from their mother for months. One evening, they decide to go looking for her.

Ototeman

Just 3 People Talking

Ramona

Vincenta B

Raw Materials

Canto Errante (Wandering Song)

Un Gavillero en la Sierra (A Gavillero in the Sierra)

Pienso Mucho en la Foto que no Tomé (I Think a Lot about the Pictures I Didn’t Take)

Petit Frère (Little Brother)

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