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Ouvertures

Film festival|by The Living and the Dead Ensemble

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Ouvertures
by The Living and the Dead (UK / F 2020, Haitian,  French, ST: E, 132’ )

+ Q&A Léonard Jean Baptiste, Louis Henderson, Olivier Marboeuf and Cristina Nord (Head of the Berlinale Forum)

The Haitian revolution was a test case for the ideals of the French Revolution: What does the promise that all men are brothers who enjoy the same inviolable rights even mean as long as colonies and slavery exist? Nothing, according to the enslaved inhabitants of Haiti, who rebelled against the owners of the sugar cane plantations in 1791. In 1961, Antillean writer Édouard Glissant dedicated his play "Monsieur Toussaint" to their leader Toussaint Louverture, which in turn serves as the basis for Ouvertures. Louis Henderson, Olivier Marboeuf and the theatre group The Living and The Dead Ensemble film themselves rehearsing the play in Port-au-Prince. The result is an experiment in three parts: a study retracing Louverture’s steps, an analysis of shared authorship and collective filmmaking and finally the outburst of a magical reality in which the spirits of the dead are alive. (Cristina Nord)
 
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