Raoul Peck: Aprés the Earthquake

(Thursday, January 22nd-Sunday, January 25th)

Curated by Michelle Materre and the Creatively Speaking Film Series

Co-sponsored by the Haiti Cultural Exchange, The DDPA (Durban Declaration & Programme of Action) Watch Group, The BDC (Black Documentary Collective), The Haitian Creole Language Institute and Harlem Karibe

(Reflecting back on Haiti’s devastating earthquake 5 years later with a look at the

documentaries and fiction verite from globally recognized and Haitian born

master filmmaker Raoul Peck. A portion of the proceeds will go to Ciné Institute, Haiti's only film school, fostering a new generation of Haitian filmmakers.)

Profit and Nothing But!

 

Raoul Peck, 2001, 52 min

Who said that the economy serves mankind? What is this world where the wealthiest two percent controls everything? A world where this law of the strongest and the richest is imposed on the rest of humanity? Raoul Peck confronts these questions in this researched documentary, and contrasts them against the devastating reality of his native land, Haiti - "a country that doesn't exist, where intellectual discussion has become a luxury." Haiti’s GNP for the next thirty years is roughly equivalent to Bill Gates (current) fortune. The film's stark images of the real lives of the people provide a striking backdrop for talk of 'triumphant capitalism.' This is an extremely timely and relevant exploration of the profit motive and its consequences on our day to day lives, our history, and outlook for the future.

 

Q&A with Michelle Materre and author and scholar Darrick Hamilton.

 

Darrick Hamilton is an Associate Professor of Economics and Urban Policy at

Milano – The New School for International Affairs, Management and Urban

Policy, an affiliated faculty member in the Department of Economics at The New

School for Social Research, a faculty research fellow at the Schwartz Center for

Economic Policy Analysis, an affiliate scholar at the Center for American

Progress, and a research affiliate at the Research Network on Racial and Ethnic

Inequality at Duke University.  Also, he is a Co-Associate Director of the Diversity

Initiative for Tenure in Economics program, serving on the Board of Overseers

for the General Social Survey, and a Co-Principle Investigator of the National

Asset Scorecard in Communities of Color.

 

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6:30pm

 

Lumumba: The Death of a Prophet

Raoul Peck, 1992, 69 min

Lumumba: The Death of a Prophet offers a unique opportunity to reconsider the life and legacy of one of the legendary figures of modern African history. Like Malcolm X, Patrice Lumumba is remembered less for his lasting achievements than as an enduring symbol of the struggle for self-determination. This deeply personal reflection by acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck on the events of Lumumba's brief twelve month rise and fall is a moving memorial to a man described as a giant, a prophet, a devil, and "a mystic of freedom”. It is a film about remembering, it is even more a film about forgetting. Raoul Peck meditates on his own memories as the privileged son of an agricultural expert working for the regime that displaced Lumumba. He examines home movies, photographs, old newsreels and contemporary interviews with Belgian journalists and Lumumba's own daughter to try to piece together the tragic events and betrayals of 1960. Yet, as this film testifies, Lumumba's prophecy will not be silenced until Africa achieves its second independence where the promises of the first can be fulfilled.


Q&A with Michelle Materre and filmmaker and curator Shola Lynch.

 

 

Shola Lynch is an award-winning American filmmaker who burst on the scene in 2004.  Her second feature documentary Free Angela and All Political Prisoners is a first hand account of the events that thrust Angela Davis into the national spotlight, from a young college professor to a fugitive on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list and premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. This complex film has challenged Lynch and showcases her progress as a promising director and producer. Shola’s first independent feature documentary, CHISHOLM ’72 – Unbought & Unbossed, about Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm’s historic run for president in 1972, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, aired on PBS’s POV series, and garnered two Independent Spirit Award nominations and a prestigious Peabody for excellence. Raised by a Canadian mother and a father from the tiny Caribbean island of Tobago, Shola grew-up in a multicultural and international environment in New York. From the ages of two to six, she regularly appeared on the classic children’s television series Sesame Street. Shola is also the Moving Image and Recorded Sound Curator of the Schomburg Center for Research In Black Culture in Harlem.

 

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Raoul Peck: Aprés the Earthquake

OFFSITE LOCATION: The Mount Morris Ascension Presbyterian Church

16-20 Mount Morris Park West (Southwest corner of West 122nd Street)

Raoul Peck: Après the Earthquake

(Thursday, January 22nd-Sunday, January 25th)

Curated by Michelle Materre and the Creatively Speaking Film Series

Co-sponsored by the Haiti Cultural Exchange, The DDPA (Durban Declaration & Programme of Action) Watch Group, The BDC (Black Documentary Collective), The Haitian Creole Language Institute and Harlem Karibe

(Reflecting back on Haiti’s devastating earthquake 5 years later with a look at the

documentaries and fiction verite from globally recognized and Haitian born

master filmmaker Raoul Peck. A portion of the proceeds will go to Ciné Institute, Haiti's only film school, fostering a new generation of Haitian filmmakers.)

Haiti: 5 Years Later

 

A Public Health Forum

OFFSITE LOCATION: The Mount Morris Ascension Presbyterian Church

16-20 Mount Morris Park West (Southwest corner of West 122nd Street)

This program will include a screening of Raoul Peck's Fatal Assistance

followed by a panel discussion/forum with Peck and public health

officials and experts on where we go from here. Billions of dollars in

aid has been raised since the devastating earthquake and the question

is still being asked -- where did all that money go? After the

earthquake in 2010, foundations from around the world pledged more

than $9 billion to help get the country back on its feet. Only a

fraction of the money ever made it to Haiti. Roughly 350,000 people

still live in camps. Many others simply moved back to the same

shoddily built structures that proved so deadly during the disaster.

5 years later the impoverished nation stands no better equipped to

improve itself. In this forum we will unpack this dilemma with help of

Peck and his earth shattering film Fatal Assistance, expert panelists

and community members, and build together about next steps.

 

Fatal Assistance

Raoul Peck, 2013, 100 min

Award-winning Haitian-born filmmaker Raoul Peck takes us on a two-year

journey inside the challenging, contradictory, and colossal rebuilding

efforts in post-earthquake Haiti. Through its provocative point of

view, Fatal Assistance offers a devastating indictment of the

international community’s post-disaster idealism. The film dives

headlong into the complexity of the reconstruction process and the

practices and impact of worldwide humanitarian and development aid,

revealing the disturbing extent of a general failure. We learn that a

major portion of the money pledged to Haiti was never disbursed, nor

made it into the actual reconstruction. Fatal Assistance leads us to

one clear conclusion: current aid policies and practice in Haiti need

to stop immediately.

 

Berlin International Film Festival, 2013

San Francisco International Film Festival, 2013

Human Rights Watch Film Festival, 2013

 

“Written and directed with intelligence and authority” – Deborah

Young, Hollywood Reporter

“Powerful” – Variety

“Lyrically filmed…shrewd in its analysis” – David D’Arcy, Screen Daily

Followed by a panel discussion with director Raoul Peck, Michelle Materre, La'Shawn Allen Muhammad, the director of training for the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation and Allah Smalls, EMT and Chief of Operations, Bed Stuy Volunteer Ambulance Corp.

 

La'Shawn Allen Muhammad is an expert in the field of Public Health. She is the director of training for the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation and the CEO and founder of Entrepreneurs of New York. She is also the Deputy Executive Director of Central Brooklyn Economic Development Corporation and the Brooklyn Director of the Long Island African American Chamber of Commerce (LIAACC).

 

Allah Smalls, EMT and Chief of Operations, Bed Stuy Volunteer Ambulance Corp., was one of the first 145 responders to arrive in Port of Prince after the earthquake, with volunteer Ministers, Wyclef Jean and BSVAC (The Bedford-Stuyvesant Volunteer Ambulance Corps).

 

8:00pm

(at the Maysles Cinema)

Reception with cuisine of the Haitian diaspora, provided by Harlem Karibe, and dance party with music from Haitian American DJ -- DJ Fritzo.

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Raoul Peck: Aprés the Earthquake

(Thursday, January 22nd-Sunday, January 25th)

Curated by Michelle Materre and the Creatively Speaking Film Series

Co-sponsored by the Haiti Cultural Exchange, The DDPA (Durban Declaration & Programme of Action) Watch Group, The BDC (Black Documentary Collective), The Haitian Creole Language Institute and Harlem Karibe

(Reflecting back on Haiti’s devastating earthquake 5 years later with a look at the

documentaries and fiction verite from globally recognized and Haitian born

master filmmaker Raoul Peck. A portion of the proceeds will go to Ciné Institute, Haiti's only film school, fostering a new generation of Haitian filmmakers.)

Moloch Tropical

 

Raoul Peck, 2009, 107 min

Filmed in Haiti just prior to the devastating earthquake, the film takes viewers behind the closed doors of a fortress perched on the top of a distant mountain. A democratically elected President and his closest collaborators prepare for a state celebration of the 200th anniversary of the country’s independence to be attended by foreign dignitaries and heads of state. But in the city, a popular uprising is spreading. Although a fictional story set in a modern motif, one is reminded of the reign of Henri-Christophe, one of the major leaders of the Haitian revolution. The film’s location is, in fact, La Citadell Laferriere, the fortress built by Christophe, where the legend is also buried. With dialogue in Creole, French and English, the film stars two Haitian performers, well-known to U.S. audiences – actor Jimmy Jean Louis (TV’s Heroes) and singer Emmeline Michel.

 

Q&A with Dowoti Desir of the DDPA Watch Group and Michelle Materre.

 

Dowoti Désir, the Durban Declaration & Programme of Action Watch Group founder and president is a scholar, and social curator of performative and contemporary arts in public spaces. Her book: "Goud kase goud: Conjuring Memory in Spaces of the AfroAtlantic" focuses on the historic sites, monuments and memorials of the Maafa known as the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Her traveling photography exhibition, "Wòch kase wòch: Redlining a Holocaust, Memorials and the People of the AfroAtlantic, " commemorates the International Decade for People of African Descent 2015-2024.

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