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Thursday, February 1 MONTH
9:00 PM
MAMBAR PIERRETTE
by Rosine Mbakam
2023, 93 min, DCP. In French, Bamileke, and Cameroon Pidgin with English subtitles.
Film Notes
Distributed by Icarus Films.
Though MAMBAR PIERRETTE represents the first fictional feature by French-Cameroonian filmmaker Rosine Mbakam – who visited Anthology in 2019 to present theatrical runs of her remarkable THE TWO FACES OF A BAMILEKE WOMAN and CHEZ JOLIE COIFFURE – the new film closely resembles her earlier films in its observational, de-dramatized focus on daily life and its dedication to portraying a strong-willed, unapologetic, and charismatic female protagonist. With the beginning of the school year in the city of Douala, a long line of customers come to Mambar Pierrette, the neighborhood dressmaker, to have their clothes ready for upcoming social events and ceremonies. More than a seamstress, Pierrette is the confidant of her customers. But when it starts pouring and the rain threatens to flood her workshop – one of many misfortunes she will be forced to bear – Pierrette struggles to stay afloat.
“Mbakam’s lucid studies of labor and displacement in the lives of Cameroonian women seem to grow in political breadth with every effort, from her mother’s doorstep, to an expat-owned beauty parlor, to a sex worker’s bed. […] As with her previous work, MAMBAR PIERRETTE is attuned to the rhythms of laboring women and the communities enriched by their presence. Her pivot to fiction feels anchored by the same careful eye which surveilled Sabine – the salon manager of CHEZ JOLIE COIFFURE – framing her in mirrors, between clients; a kinetic, reassuring presence. […] Pierrette’s misfortunes are not framed as pitiable [so much as] they are indictments of neocolonialism in Cameroon, those residual creases in the country’s socioeconomic fabric. ‘I didn’t want to tell the story of Pierrette the way the West would, I wanted to tell it the way we live it,’ Mbakam told Film Comment. It takes a certain amount of reverence to relay your country to an international audience cavities and all, though Mbakam has always understood the whorling nature of homesickness.” –Saffron Maeve, SCREEN SLATE
“Mbakam’s heroines are not victims, they are lucid and assertive, able to read their environments and endear their audiences with ease. Yet, in this film, Mambar’s spotlight is stolen towards the end by the appearance of a clown whose brief, moving monologue touches on subversive gender expression, popular justice, and the state of performing arts in Cameroon – ‘Art is dead in this country’, he laments, a cutting declaration and one that the film is actively resisting.” –Abiba Coulibaly, ULTRA DOGME
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PALESTINIAN VOICES: A WORLD NOT OURS
by Mahdi Fleifel
2012, 93 min, digital. In English and Arabic with English subtitles.
This screening is part of: PALESTINIAN VOICES
Film NotesFriday, February 2
SHE IS CONANN
by Bertrand Mandico
2023, 105 min, DCP. In French, English, and German with English subtitles.
Film Notes
Saturday, February 3
THE SHOW HAS ALREADY STARTED
by Bertrand Mandico
2023, 83 min, DCP. In French with English subtitles.
Film Notes
SHE IS CONANN
by Bertrand Mandico
2023, 105 min, DCP. In French, English, and German with English subtitles.
Film Notes
Sunday, February 4
THE SHOW HAS ALREADY STARTED
by Bertrand Mandico
2023, 83 min, DCP. In French with English subtitles.
Film Notes
SHE IS CONANN
by Bertrand Mandico
2023, 105 min, DCP. In French, English, and German with English subtitles.
Film Notes
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Friday, February 9
ANITA
by Rassoul Labuchin
1981, 45 min, 16mm-to-digital. In Haitian Creole with English subtitles.
This screening is part of: STRUGGLE OF MEMORY: FORGETTING HAITI, REMEMBERING AYITI
Film NotesHAITIAN CORNER
by Raoul Peck
1988, 98 min, 16mm-to-digital. In English, French, and Haitian Creole with English subtitles.
This screening is part of: STRUGGLE OF MEMORY: FORGETTING HAITI, REMEMBERING AYITI
Film NotesSaturday, February 10
HAITI: THE WAY TO FREEDOM
by Arnold Antonin
1975, 120 min, 16mm-to-digital. In French and Haitian Creole with English subtitles.
This screening is part of: STRUGGLE OF MEMORY: FORGETTING HAITI, REMEMBERING AYITI
Film NotesMOLOCH TROPICAL
by Raoul Peck
2009, 107 min, DCP. In Haitian Creole, English, and French with English subtitles.
This screening is part of: STRUGGLE OF MEMORY: FORGETTING HAITI, REMEMBERING AYITI
Film NotesSunday, February 11
ARNOLD ANTONIN PROGRAM
This screening is part of: STRUGGLE OF MEMORY: FORGETTING HAITI, REMEMBERING AYITI
Film NotesKRIK? KRAK! TALES OF A NIGHTMARE
by Jac Avila & Vanyoska Gee
1988, 78 min, 16mm-to-digital. In English, French, and Haitian Creole with English subtitles.
This screening is part of: STRUGGLE OF MEMORY: FORGETTING HAITI, REMEMBERING AYITI
Film NotesHAITI: SHORT FILM PROGRAM
This screening is part of: STRUGGLE OF MEMORY: FORGETTING HAITI, REMEMBERING AYITI
Film NotesMonday, February 12
EAT, FOR THIS IS MY BODY
by Michelange Quay
2007, 107 min, 35mm-to-DCP. In French with English subtitles.
This screening is part of: STRUGGLE OF MEMORY: FORGETTING HAITI, REMEMBERING AYITI
Film NotesTuesday, February 13
THIS HOUSE
by Miryam Charles
2022, 75 min, 16mm-to-DCP. In French and Haitian Creole with English subtitles.
This screening is part of: STRUGGLE OF MEMORY: FORGETTING HAITI, REMEMBERING AYITI
Film NotesAYITI MON AMOUR
by Guetty Felin
2016, 88 min, DCP. In English, French, Haitian Creole, and Japanese with English subtitles.
This screening is part of: STRUGGLE OF MEMORY: FORGETTING HAITI, REMEMBERING AYITI
Film NotesWednesday, February 14
OUVERTURES
by The Living and the Dead Ensemble
2020, 132 min, digital. In French and Haitian Creole with English subtitles.
This screening is part of: STRUGGLE OF MEMORY: FORGETTING HAITI, REMEMBERING AYITI
Film NotesThursday, February 15
STATELESS
by Michèle Stephenson
2020, 97 min, digital. In English, Spanish, and Haitian Creole with English subtitles.
This screening is part of: STRUGGLE OF MEMORY: FORGETTING HAITI, REMEMBERING AYITI
Film NotesDIVINE HORSEMEN: THE LIVING GODS OF HAITI
by Maya Deren, Teiji Ito, and Cherel Winett Ito
1954/81, 52 min, 16mm
This screening is part of: STRUGGLE OF MEMORY: FORGETTING HAITI, REMEMBERING AYITI
Film NotesFriday, February 16
ANITA
by Rassoul Labuchin
1981, 45 min, 16mm-to-digital. In Haitian Creole with English subtitles.
This screening is part of: STRUGGLE OF MEMORY: FORGETTING HAITI, REMEMBERING AYITI
Film NotesEAT, FOR THIS IS MY BODY
by Michelange Quay
2007, 107 min, 35mm-to-DCP. In French with English subtitles.
This screening is part of: STRUGGLE OF MEMORY: FORGETTING HAITI, REMEMBERING AYITI
Film NotesSaturday, February 17
HAITI: THE WAY TO FREEDOM
by Arnold Antonin
1975, 120 min, 16mm-to-digital. In French and Haitian Creole with English subtitles.
This screening is part of: STRUGGLE OF MEMORY: FORGETTING HAITI, REMEMBERING AYITI
Film NotesARNOLD ANTONIN PROGRAM
This screening is part of: STRUGGLE OF MEMORY: FORGETTING HAITI, REMEMBERING AYITI
Film NotesHAITIAN CORNER
by Raoul Peck
1988, 98 min, 16mm-to-digital. In English, French, and Haitian Creole with English subtitles.
This screening is part of: STRUGGLE OF MEMORY: FORGETTING HAITI, REMEMBERING AYITI
Film NotesSunday, February 18
MOLOCH TROPICAL
by Raoul Peck
2009, 107 min, DCP. In Haitian Creole, English, and French with English subtitles.
This screening is part of: STRUGGLE OF MEMORY: FORGETTING HAITI, REMEMBERING AYITI
Film NotesTHIS HOUSE
by Miryam Charles
2022, 75 min, 16mm-to-DCP. In French and Haitian Creole with English subtitles.
This screening is part of: STRUGGLE OF MEMORY: FORGETTING HAITI, REMEMBERING AYITI
Film NotesMonday, February 19
HAITI: SHORT FILM PROGRAM
This screening is part of: STRUGGLE OF MEMORY: FORGETTING HAITI, REMEMBERING AYITI
Film NotesKRIK? KRAK! TALES OF A NIGHTMARE
by Jac Avila & Vanyoska Gee
1988, 78 min, 16mm-to-digital. In English, French, and Haitian Creole with English subtitles.
This screening is part of: STRUGGLE OF MEMORY: FORGETTING HAITI, REMEMBERING AYITI
Film NotesTuesday, February 20
DIVINE HORSEMEN: THE LIVING GODS OF HAITI
by Maya Deren, Teiji Ito, and Cherel Winett Ito
1954/81, 52 min, 16mm
This screening is part of: STRUGGLE OF MEMORY: FORGETTING HAITI, REMEMBERING AYITI
Film NotesOUVERTURES
by The Living and the Dead Ensemble
2020, 132 min, digital. In French and Haitian Creole with English subtitles.
This screening is part of: STRUGGLE OF MEMORY: FORGETTING HAITI, REMEMBERING AYITI
Film NotesWednesday, February 21
AYITI MON AMOUR
by Guetty Felin
2016, 88 min, DCP. In English, French, Haitian Creole, and Japanese with English subtitles.
This screening is part of: STRUGGLE OF MEMORY: FORGETTING HAITI, REMEMBERING AYITI
Film NotesSTATELESS
by Michèle Stephenson
2020, 97 min, digital. In English, Spanish, and Haitian Creole with English subtitles.
This screening is part of: STRUGGLE OF MEMORY: FORGETTING HAITI, REMEMBERING AYITI
Film NotesThursday, February 22
BIDOUN PRESENTS: THE MAN WHO WATCHED WINDOWS
by Merzak Allouache
1982, 85 min, 16mm. In Arabic with projected English subtitles.
This screening is part of: BIDOUN PRESENTS
Film NotesFriday, February 23
EC: UNE SIMPLE HISTOIRE
by Marcel Hanoun
In French with projected English subtitles, 1958, 68 min, 16mm, b&w
Film Notes
NARROW ROOMS: BEN & ARTHUR
by Sam Mraovich
2002, 85 min, digital
This screening is part of: NARROW ROOMS
Film NotesSaturday, February 24
BITTER CANE
by Benjamin Dupuy & Kim Ives
1983, 75 min, 16mm-to-digital. In English and Haitian Creole with English subtitles.
This screening is part of: STRUGGLE OF MEMORY: FORGETTING HAITI, REMEMBERING AYITI
Film NotesMARY HELENA CLARK PGM 1
This screening is part of: FIGURES MINUS FACTS: THE FILMS OF MARY HELENA CLARK
Film NotesSunday, February 25
MARY HELENA CLARK PGM 2
This screening is part of: FIGURES MINUS FACTS: THE FILMS OF MARY HELENA CLARK
Film NotesMonday, February 26
BITTER CANE
by Benjamin Dupuy & Kim Ives
1983, 75 min, 16mm-to-digital. In English and Haitian Creole with English subtitles.
This screening is part of: STRUGGLE OF MEMORY: FORGETTING HAITI, REMEMBERING AYITI
Film NotesWednesday, February 28
EC: TOM, TOM, THE PIPER’S SON
by Ken Jacobs
1969, 115 min, 16mm, b&w/color, silent
Film Notes