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The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire
Institute of Contemporary Arts
The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire, dir. Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich, USA 2024, English, French with English subtitles, 75 min.


The importance of Césaire’s legacy as a pioneer of Afro-Caribbean surrealism and co-founder of Tropiques finds multidisciplinary artist Hunt-Ehrlich offering up captivating fragments of her life. Driven by Césaire’s writing, and with testimony from her family, the film seeks to honour lost memories and the unknowable. Resplendent in tropical light and the lush greenness of Martinique, this delicately layered metafictional essay keeps our heroine’s radical voice startlingly present.
 
06:45 pm
Thu, 17 Oct 2024
Cinema 1
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