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Special Events 2000-2001 For further information on any of the following events, please click on the appropriate text:
Cave Hill Film Society On September 29 at 7.30 p.m. the Cave Hill Film Society will launch its third season with a presentation of experimental films by the Trinidadian film-maker Yao Ramesar. One of the new generation of young Caribbean directors, Ramesar trained in Washington and now lectures in television and film at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. He has won numerous awards, including the Paul Robeson Award for Best Film and Best Editing (1990), and for Best Cinematography (1991) in the U.S.; and the Best Television Series, Best Editing and Best Supporting Video awards in Trinidad in 1997. Ramesar is also a commentator and film theorist, whose ideas have been published both in the Caribbean and elsewhere. For the Film Society Ramesar will be showing a series of short experimental films made over the last five years, in which he explores 'the spiritual essence of Trinidad and Tobago's diverse culture'. The subjects of these films include steel pan, the Hindu River Festival, the Orisha Festival, masquerade traditions, parang, cricket and aspects of different religions. Ramesar will discuss the development of his film aesthetic, which he calls 'Caribbeing', and the implications of digital production and the emergence of electronic cinema for film production in the Caribbean. This event kicks off the third season of the Cave Hill Film Society, which, by popular demand, is devoted to the cinema of the extended Caribbean. Meetings take place every other Friday from September 29 onwards in the Arts Lecture Theatre of the Cave Hill Campus. Doors open at 7.30 for a prompt start at 7.45 p.m. We welcome back old members, and invite you to introduce a friend to the Society. All are welcome! Subsequent showings include: October 13. Death of a Bureaucrat. (Cuba, 1966). Directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea. Created by Cuba's leading director of the Revolutionary period, Gutiérrez Alea (1928 - 1998). "Death of a Bureaucrat signalled the beginning of an inventive new era in Cuban cinema. The film has a madcap comic style with homages to comedy greats such as Chaplin and Laurel and Hardy; it is a playful but devastating assault on bureaucratization and artistic standardization: in the opening sequence a worker is killed on a production line that makes endless busts of José Martí." [John King]. Through an oversight he is buried with his ID card, and the subsequent plot turns on the efforts of his widow, who needs the card to collect her pension, to get the body exhumed and then properly re-buried.. October 27. Black Orpheus (Orfeu negro). (Brazil 1958) Directed by Marcel Camus. [In Portuguese with English subtitles]. Camus's Academy Award-winning update of the Greek myth is set amid the frenetic energy of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. Orpheus, a trolley car conductor and superb sambadancer, is engaged to Mira but falls in love with Eurydice. For his change of heart, Orpheus and his new doomed lover are pursued by a vengeful Mira and a determined Death through the feverish Carnival night. Camus at once demystifies and remystifies the old story, shifting not only its location but its tone and context, forcing a re-evaluation of the legend as a more passionate, pulsing, sensual experience. Starring Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, musical score by Luis Bonfa and Antonio Carlos Jobim. November 10. Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask. (U.K.: 1995). Directed by Isaac Julien. This movie explores for the first time on film one of the most influential theorists of the anti-colonial movements of our century. Fanon's two major works Black Skin, White Mask and The Wretched of the Earth were pioneering studies of the psychological impact of racism on both colonized and colonizer. This innovative film biography restores Fanon to his rightful place at the centre of contemporary discussions of post-colonial identity. Isaac Julien, the celebrated black British director of such provocative films as Looking for Langston and Young Soul Rebels, reveals not just the facts of Fanon's brief but remarkably eventful life but his long and tortuous inner journey. At the invitation of the Film Society, the director will visit Cave Hill and present his own work. November 24. Sargasso! A Caribbean Love Story. (Barbados, 1990) Directed by Michael Gilkes. Dominican writer Jean Rhys's celebrated novel, Wide Sargasso Sea, published in 1966, tells the story of the mad creole heiress in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. A Caribbean Love Story is a contemporary response to this classic novel through the medium of film. While it captures the spirit of the original modernist text, the visual realization creates new meanings of its own. In particular: the island setting is presented as indivisible from drama, providing an antidote to the Hollywood fantasy of the Caribbean as an exotic island paradise. A University of the West Indies pilot project, Sargasso! was filmed in Dominica with an all Caribbean cast and crew. The director, Guayanese dramatist and respected academic, Michael Gilkes, pays tribute to Jean Rhys in a voice-over introduction to the film. December 08. What My Mother Told Me. (Trinidad 1994) Directed by Frances-Anne Solomon. Anne Solomon draws on sometimes shockingly autobiographical material for this film, which was shot on location in Gaspar Grande, a small island off the North-West cost of Trinidad. What My Mother Told Me tells the story of a young woman, Jesse, who comes to Trinidad from the UK to bury her father and meet the mother she never knew. An intense, passionately-acted movie, starring Adjoa Andoh and Leonie Forbes.
The Department of Language, Linguistics & Literature presents: An African Film Festival: A Dialogue With Ousmane Sembène October 6 (Friday) October 7 (Saturday) October 8 (Sunday) October 9 (Monday) October 10 (Tuesday) 8:30 p.m. - Screening of Guelwar October 11(Wednesday) 8:30 p.m. - Screening of Xala October 13 (Friday) 12.00-2.00 - Screening of Black Girl 8:30 p.m. - Screening of Camp Thiaroye October 14 (Saturday)
(RE)THINKING CARIBBEAN CULTURE This international and interdisciplinary conference will attempt to both specify and assess the dominant ways in which Caribbean culture in its various manifestations has historically been conceptualised. Some of the issues which will hopefully be addressed include dominant conceptions of race, racism, gender, misogyny, sexuality, homophobia, the nation-state, language, logic, philosophy, authorship, realism, literary history, etc. Equally importantly, where particular orthodoxies may arguably have become enshrined or even stale or disproved, this conference will also seek to explore alternative perspectives from which Caribbean culture might / ought to be rethought. For more information on the conference, click here.
HUMANITIES FESTIVAL 2001 A detailled programme will be posted here soon.
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