Program 3
PilgrimCauleen Smith; Kamera: Arthur Jafa, Cauleen Smith. US, 2017, DCP, Farbe, 23 min. Englisch
Cette maison
Miryam Charles; Drehbuch: Miryam Charles; Kamera: Isabelle Stachtchenko; Schnitt: Xi Feng; Musik: Romain Camiolo; Darsteller*innen: Schelby Jean-Baptiste, Florence Blain Mbaye, Eve Duranceau, Mireille Metéllus, Matthew Rankin, Yardly Kavanagh, Nadine Jean, Tracy Marcellin. CA, 2022, DCP, Farbe, 75 min. Französisch mit engl. UT
In Cauleen Smith's Pilgrim (2017), three locations – Alice Coltrane's ashram, Simon Rodia's Watts Tower and Black spiritual activist Rebecca Cox Jackson's Watervliet Shaker Historic District – and a live recording of Alice Coltrane's One for the Father form the starting point for a cinematic exploration of places that were and are dedicated to creativity and fulfillment. Although diametrically opposed to a logic of flourishing, in Miryam Charles' Cette maison (2022), a place, or more precisely a house, is also at the center of the plot and along with it the stories of its inhabitants. Tessa, a murdered teenager, speaks to her mother and to us, the viewers. And she shares her thoughts about migration, wishes and hopes, in addition to a present in which the atrocities of the past are imprinted. (B.K.-K.)
Introduced by Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński
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