Join us at 6:00 pm on Tuesday, April 25 for a special screening and conversation with Miami filmmakers and scholars about the history and future of Miami in a Francophone Caribbean context of anticolonialism, poetry, and radical film. The conversation will be moderated by UM School of Communications Professor and Associate Dean of Inclusion and Outreach Terri Francis (she/her). This event will be followed by a reception on the plaza.
In "Aimé Césaire: The Mask of Words" (“Le masque des mots”), director Sarah Maldoror depicts a foundational figure of the Négritude movement against the backdrop of 1987 Miami. Maldoror makes the city of Miami a protagonist in her homage to the Martinican poet Aimé Césaire, as her footage shuttles from FIU to the Everglades to the recently-opened Metrorail. Through her juxtaposition of Martinique and Miami, Maldoror raises important questions about the endurance of colonial legacies in both locations. And by linking Black Miami to Aimé Césaire’s poetry and politics, the film makes an urgent case for a Pan-Caribbean coalition of all those “without whom the earth would not be the earth.”
The post-film conversation will explore storytelling, surrealism, Négritude, Black Miami history, and filmmaking with Donette Francis (she/her), director for the Center for Global Black Studies at the University of Miami, Marina Magloire (she/her), a Martinican-American scholar and an Assistant Professor of English at University of Miami, Helen Peña (they/them), Dominican-American child of the Atlantic, filmmaker, and community organizer from Miami, FL, and Monica Sorelle (she/they), a Haitian-American filmmaker and artist born and based in Miami. The event includes a reception by Paradis Books and Bread with music by Akia Dorsainvil, aka DJ Pressure Point (he/they). Set list to feature zouk and kompa.
Age Appropriateness: 16+
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