BRAZIL IS THEE, HAITI IS (T)HERE
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On March 16, 2020, in Brasília, the capital of Brazil, an anonymous and unknown Haitian man challenged the head of the nation: “Bolsonaro, it’s over. You are not president anymore.” This film poem counterpoints that event with the catastrophic military operations held by Minustah (United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti), commanded by Brazil in 2005 and 2006, in Cité Soleil, Port-au-Prince. The film summons the song Haiti by Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil, and makes references to the Haitian revolution, the poem O Guesa by Sousândrade, Bur-Jargal by Victor Hugo, the film Haiti: The Way of Liberty by Arnold Antonin, and the unrealized project by Sergei Eisenstein and Paul Robeson about Toussaint Louverture.
Brazil is Thee, Haiti is (T)here, screens as part of the shorts program Beyond the Barricades, on Tuesday, June 29 at 6:00 pm.
Content warning: This film contains material of a sensitive nature regarding violence against black bodies.
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About the Director
Carlos Adriano was born in São Paulo in 1966, and holds a PhD in Film from the University of São Paulo. His films have been exhibited at MoMA in New York, and the Tate Modern, London, and have been the subject of several retrospectives, including the Festival do Rio (2002), 56th Festival Locarno (Filmmakers of the Present, 2003), Belo Horizonte Short Film Festival (2004), 16th Videobrasil (curatorial axis Cinema+Arts+Vídeo, 2007), and Instituto Tomie Ohtake (exposition; films installed in projections, displays, loops, 2019). His work is the subject of a chapter of the book The Sublimity of Document: Cinema as Diorama (Avant-doc 2) by Scott MacDonald.
