Beyond Representation and the Passive Image: Cinema for Liberation from the Caribbean
program description
Third Horizon presents a programme of films for Cinelogue drawn from the Anansi TV collection. Each film was previously selected for the annual Third Horizon Film Festival.
The programme—thirteen films in total—consists of a mixture of features and shorts, fiction films and documentaries, with a particular focus on creative nonfiction. It is at the intersection of the real and the imagined that we find Caribbean filmmakers to be particularly fruitful, often working collaboratively to make a decolonial cinema, a cinema invested in the ultimate goal of liberation, in the belief a better world is possible.
about the curator
Third Horizon is a nonprofit organization dedicated to uplifting cinema and filmmakers from the Caribbean, its diaspora, and other marginalized and underrepresented spaces in the Global South. They are a network of artists, storytellers, and filmmakers committed to cultural expansion and to connecting audiences with stories that matter.
Haiti, 2014, 11m
A portrait of Professor Alfred Avril and his devotion to Haitian machete fencing.
Puerto Rico, 2017, 1h 45m
Electrifying, revealing and timely, this documentary revisits a seminal event in Puerto Rico’s history: the ten days in October 1950 when one hundred people, members of the island’s Nationalist Party, took up arms to overthrow the rule of the United States and establish Puerto Rican sovereignty.
Dominican Republic, 2022, 18m
Tormented by bloody acts, a gavillero escape in search of his freedom.
Mexico, 2020, 20m
The holiday season is fast approaching in Tijuana, Mexico where Saül and his father-in-law, Mathieu are getting ready for a busy day at the street market selling recycled tennis shoes.
Canada/Cuba, 2018, 40m
Through moments of work, rest, and celebration, the film produces a deceptively profound portrait of a family, a neighbourhood, and a nation. (Jesse Cummings)
Haiti / France, 2017, 11m
The shadows of Napoleon’s army fall upon a boat traveling through a mysterious cave named after her legend Marie Jeanne, a female soldier who fought in the Haitian Revolution.
UK/France, 2020, 2h 12m
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.
Netherlands, 2018, 1h 40m
An immersive initiation into the life of a Maroon community in the former Dutch colony of Suriname.
USA, 2021, 33m
Christopher Columbus uses his undead powers to create his “New World”, where he sucks the blood out of his colonial project for centuries.
Cuba, 2021, 12m
The night finds Orestes in a thick tropical forest holding a machete and looking furiously for Damián, his younger brother.
