Douvan Jou Ka Leve + The Crying Conch
March 15, 2019 6:30pm
Douvan Jou Ka Leve
Dir. Gessica Généus
2017, 51min
In this textured and surprising personal documentary, Haitian filmmaker and actress Gessica Généus undertakes a journey to understand what she calls Haiti’s “illness of the soul”—the country’s fraught religious divide between Vodou and Christianity. With her mother’s bipolarity as her poignant point of departure, Généus skilfully interweaves traditional interviews and ethnographic-style observation with poetic narration as she seeks to connect the dots of her family’s, and her island’s, fractured history. The result is a moving meditation on both mental illness and a nation’s as-yet unassuaged inner turmoil.
The Crying Conch
Dir. Vincent Toi
2017, 20min
A man is drawn into following in the footsteps of the historic Haitian slave leader Mackandal, who is trapped in a curse which started centuries ago.
Run time: 71min
Format: DCP
General Admission: $15
Members: $7.50 (free for Level 4 and above)
More Info: https://www.bam.org/film/2019/douvan-jou-ka-leve-the-crying-conch
Location
Peter Jay Sharp Building – BAM Rose Cinemas
30 Lafayette Ave.
Brooklyn NY 11217 USA