Film Screening

FILM SCREENING
Diapositives (Madafi Pierre, 2023)
In her film Diapositives, the artist and filmmaker Madafi Pierre por-
trays five people of Haitian origin living in Switzerland. Pierre takes a
global look at Haiti and Switzerland and asks what the connections be -
tween these two countries are and what life in Switzerland is like from
a Haitian perspective. Diapositives addresses questions of planned and
unplanned mobility, migration, as well as of belonging and feelings of
home, which cannot (necessarily) be tied to territories.
With KRIK KRAK, Pierre uses a mode of storytelling in the form of call-and-
response, which is rooted in Haitian culture. Since Haiti is the country of
the first Black revolution, starting in 1791, the film simultaneously involves
a broader conversation about the way we think about historiography
and European colonization. We also engage with the question of how to
decolonize knowledge production.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A. Over drinks, finger food, and
music there will be the opportunity to continue the discussion informally.

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