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The Gospel of the Creole Pig by Michelange Quay.
Short Film 2004 Sélection Officielle Cannes 2004
Production: Les Films à un Dollar
Produced by: Tom Dercourt
Directed by: Michelange Quay
Cinematography by: Benjamin Echazarreta
Music: Julien Lourau
Related : Jean-Claude Charles, La Route du Blues, via Île en île.
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And also related to :
Knowledge of freedom is (in) the invention of escape, stealing away in the confines, in the form, of a break.
Stefano Harney & Fred Moten, The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study.
A speech act – Declare that you’re free and independent then you are free and independent, with caveats. In Miami, heritage is marked by, at least, a monument and a holiday.
Dany Laferrière au Collège de France: « Haïti, présences africaines, ruptures et mythologies »
Also, Dany Laferrière: An American Journey Film Series at Indiana University; La dérive douce d’un enfant de Petit-Goâve directed by Pedro Ruiz, 2009.
Ostinato Records released Tanbou Toujou Lou.
Here is a sampler:
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The Afropop review.
Also, Afropop(CC Smith and Gerard Tacite Lamothe) republished their research from 1986 in Haiti, as a kind of companion to Ostanito’s Tanbou and Strut’s Haiti Direct.
Also Ostinato has this 44 mins set – Afrophonia Vol. 2 1968 – 1982: Black Atlantic Rhythms from Cuba to Angola
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KCRW’s Rhythm Planet has this nice set.
Browsing through the Public Domain Collection of the NYPL. There is a residency attached to this project.
Carte hydrogeologique de la Republique d’Haiti. Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division
Le véhicule, chargé de négresses…(sounds like Room Full, Paul!) Paul Reboux, 1919. Schomburg General Research and Reference Division
Saint-Domingue a la veille de la revolution.
Le Champ-de-Mars a Port-au-Prince ; La foule a l’inauguration de la statue de Dessalines. Sténio Vincent(president 1930-1941), 1910.
L’arbre de justice, a l’ombre duquel le Roi Christophe jugeait parfois ses sujets. 1926
Philippe Guerrier, président d’Haïti. (1844-1845). Nouvelle géographie de l’île d’Haïti: contenant des notions historiques et topographiques sur les autres Antilles, par Dantès Fortunat. 1888
The caco (guerilla fighter opposed to the US occupation of Haiti, led by François Borgia Charlemagne Peralte) in the foreground killed an American Marine. Harry Alverson Franck, 1920.
