VODOU FILM NIGHT – fundraiser for the Cube Cinema’s Haiti Kids Kino Project
marko | 17.01.2011 17:22
Cube Cinema is screening two rarely shown documentaries about Haitian vodou: Anne Lescot and Laurence Magloire’s 2002 documentary Des Hommes et Dieux and Maya Deren and Cherel Ito’s classic Divine Horsemen. Dr Bettina Schmidt of University of Wales Trinity Saint David will give an introductory talk. The Vodou Film Night will also present clips from Hollywood “voodoo” movies, and DJ The Janitor from QuJunctions will be spinning Haitian sounds in the bar.
About Des Hommes et Dieux
Prevalent, yet still taboo in Haitian society, homosexuality and gay culture are allowed to flourish within the context of the Vodou religion. As "children of the gods," the men find an explanation for homosexuality as well as divine protection. They also find an outlet for theatrical expression through exhilarating performances in which they embody the gods. Meanwhile, the AIDS epidemic looms as a continual threat and adds a disquieting degree of nihilism to their relatively optimistic attitudes toward life and happiness in Port-au-Prince.
About Divine Horsemen
An exploration of the vodou religion by experimental cinema pioneer and Vodoun initiate, Maya Deren. The film consists of footage shot during 1947-1951, when Deren visited Haiti on a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her intention was to make a film in the vein of her earlier films which famously fused ritual, dance and cinematic experiment. Eventually she abandoned the project feeling that the film techniques she’d used in her earlier projects weren’t adequate to the subject. The film was posthumously edited by her husband Cherel Ito.
This event is particularly relevant given news stories about the murder of vodou priests in “retaliation” for the current cholera outbreak in Haiti.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-12073029
Note:
“Vodou Film Night” is inspired by the Cube Cinema’s award winning cultural exchange project – the Haiti Kids Kino Project - which took a mobile childrens’ cinema to Port au Prince in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake.
Profits from the event will go to the project, which is planning to return to Haiti in late 2011.
In December 2010 HKKP was awarded the Heart Award by Haitians Appeal Relief.
For more details about the Haiti Kids Kino Project –
http://nanoplex.cubecinema.com/haiti_kids_kino.php
More information about Des Hommes et Dieux –
http://www.der.org/films/of-men-and-gods.html
More information about Bettina Schmidt -http://www.trinitysaintdavid.ac.uk/en/schooloftheologyr...midt/
About Des Hommes et Dieux
Prevalent, yet still taboo in Haitian society, homosexuality and gay culture are allowed to flourish within the context of the Vodou religion. As "children of the gods," the men find an explanation for homosexuality as well as divine protection. They also find an outlet for theatrical expression through exhilarating performances in which they embody the gods. Meanwhile, the AIDS epidemic looms as a continual threat and adds a disquieting degree of nihilism to their relatively optimistic attitudes toward life and happiness in Port-au-Prince.
About Divine Horsemen
An exploration of the vodou religion by experimental cinema pioneer and Vodoun initiate, Maya Deren. The film consists of footage shot during 1947-1951, when Deren visited Haiti on a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her intention was to make a film in the vein of her earlier films which famously fused ritual, dance and cinematic experiment. Eventually she abandoned the project feeling that the film techniques she’d used in her earlier projects weren’t adequate to the subject. The film was posthumously edited by her husband Cherel Ito.
This event is particularly relevant given news stories about the murder of vodou priests in “retaliation” for the current cholera outbreak in Haiti.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-12073029
Note:
“Vodou Film Night” is inspired by the Cube Cinema’s award winning cultural exchange project – the Haiti Kids Kino Project - which took a mobile childrens’ cinema to Port au Prince in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake.
Profits from the event will go to the project, which is planning to return to Haiti in late 2011.
In December 2010 HKKP was awarded the Heart Award by Haitians Appeal Relief.
For more details about the Haiti Kids Kino Project –
http://nanoplex.cubecinema.com/haiti_kids_kino.php
More information about Des Hommes et Dieux –
http://www.der.org/films/of-men-and-gods.html
More information about Bettina Schmidt -http://www.trinitysaintdavid.ac.uk/en/schooloftheologyr...midt/
marko
Original article on IMC Bristol:
http://bristol.indymedia.org/article/702893