“Gede Vizyon is an original and concise short film that deals with arbitrariness and spontaneity. It surprisingly weds its mythical quality with GoPro shooting to create funny and memorable moments.”
– Jury Horn Festival for Experimental Film, Second prize
Gede Vizyon takes the viewer on an unusual tour of the Grand Cemetery of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Something runs loose through the labyrinthine structure of the cemetery, capturing images and sounds on its way, and creating a disorienting experience. In response to this documentation, a Hougan creates poetry that becomes narration, as a Mambo sings Vodou hymns that become soundtrack.
Vic Brooks, Short Shadows: Thought Figures, curatorial text for EMPAC Film Series: Short Shadows
EMPAC- Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer, July 2019
https://empac.rpi.edu/events/2019/short-shadows-thought-figures/Neil Young, Touring Port-au-Prince’s graveyard (guided by a goat)
Modern Times Review – The International Documentary Magazine, January 15, 2019
https://www.moderntimes.review/touring-port-au-princes-graveyard-guided-by-a-goat/Marcos Serafim and Mashya Boon, Fractured Landscapes, curatorial text for Broad Underground Film Series program
Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Film Studies Program, Department of English, Michigan State University, April 6, 2019
http://filmstudies.cal.msu.edu/events/broad-underground-film-series/
http://broadmuseum.msu.edu/calendar/fractured-landscapes-20190406AWARDS
Non-fiction honorable mention
Northampton Film Festival, Northampton, MABest Short-Jury`s second prize
Horn Festival for Experimental Films, Musrara Art School, JerusalemSCREENINGS
Metakino #3: Environment, curated video program, 2019
Program: Fauna / WHS Teatteri Union, Helsinki, Finland19th aluCine–Latin Film and Media Arts Festival, official selection, 2019
Program: Latin and Canadian Experimental / Toronto, CanadaShort Shadows: Thought Figures (EMPAC Film Series), curated film screening and Q&A, 2019
EMPAC- Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NYBuenos Aires Film Festival, official selection, 2019
Online festival, December 2019, Buenos Aires, ArgentinaSantiago Independent Film Awards, official selection, 2019
Online festival, July 2019, Santiago, ChileAlchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, official selection, 2019
Program: Your Joy is an Act of Rebellion / Heart of Hawick, ScotlandBroad Underground Film Series: Fractured Landscapes, curated video screening and Q&A, 2019
Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at MSU and The Robin Theater, Lansing, MIRevolutions Per Minute Festival, official selection, 2019 / Program: The Inner Life of Space
Art Department and Cinema Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston, MALift-Off Sessions, official selection, 2019
Online festival, January 2019, Lift-Off Global Network, EnglandVodou and Visual Art Roundtable—Gede: A Celebration of Life and Death in Vodou,
screening and roundtable, 2018 / Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NYAfrican Smartphone International Film Festival, official selection, 2018
Egbeda Lagos, NigeriaAlternative Film/Video 2018, official selection, 2018
Academic Film Center, Belgrade, SerbiaNuit Blanche de Port-au-Prince – SINEMA JOUK LI JOU, official selection, 2018
Port-Au-Prince, Haiti10th Semana de Cinema, official selection, 2018
Rio de Janeiro and Niterói, BrazilNovember Film Festival, official selection, 2018
Close-Up Film Centre, London, UKNorthampton Film Festival, official selection, 2018
Northampton, MAPugnant Film Series – 1st BCK Film Symposium, official selection, 2018
Balkan Can Kino Cinema and the MEME gallery, Athens, GreeceMedia City Film Festival’s 23rd, official selection, 2018
Windsor, Canada; and Detroit, USADOBRA – International Festival for Experimental Film, official selection, 2018
Cinemateca of MAM – Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, BrazilThe Unseen Festival, official selection, 2018
OFF Cinema and Counterpath, Denver, COIV Cinecaos, official selection, 2018
MISC-Museum of Image and Sound, Cuiabá, BrazilHorn Festival for Experimental Films, official selection, 2018
Musrara Art School, JerusalemPassive Activists II & the Healthy Intercuts, curated film screening, 2018
Holaa! at Moose Art Space, The Hague, NetherlandsEXHIBITIONS
14a International Contemporary Art Biennial of Curitiba: Intersections With The Landscape, juried group exhibition, 2019
O Sítio–Art and Technology, Florianópolis, BrazilEmerging, juried group exhibition, 2019
ARC Gallery, Chicago, ILPÒTOPRENS: The Urban Artists of Port-au-Prince, curated group exhibition, 2019
MOCA – Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, North Miami, FLFree Cabins (Filme Livre Festival), juried group exhibition, 2019
Rio de Janeiro, Niterói, Brasília and São Paulo, BrazilXPERIMENT+XPAND (CineKasimanwa: Western Visayas Film Festival 6th Edition), juried group exhibition, 2019
Iloilo Museum of Contemporary Art and Et Nos Gallery, Iloilo City, PhilippinesSaunter Trek Escort Parade…, juried group exhibition, 2018
Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY; and Queens Museum, Queens, NYMoving, curated group exhibition, 2018
Cedar Street Art Collective, Lansing, MI5th Ghetto Biennale: A Cartography of Port-au-Prince, juried group exhibition, 2017
Port-Au-Prince, HaitiGEDE VIZYON
Produced in collaboration with Steevens Simeon (Haiti), Jean-Daniel Lafontain (Haiti) and Jefferson Kielwagen (Brazil) for the 5th Ghetto Biennale in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Narrated by Jean-Daniel Lafontain, with songs by Evelyne Thelus (Haiti).
Haiti, 2018
Video, 14 minutes
