Memory's Gaze (2003)
Sarah Maldoror · 24 min
Memory's Gaze screens 2 times at BFI Southbank between Saturday 12 September and Tuesday 22 September.
Where to watch it
BFI Southbank
Belvedere Rd, Waterloo, London SE1 8XT
Rebellion
Rebellion + discussion curated and hosted by programmer and writer Jonathan Ali
What it is
The filmmaker Sarah Maldoror films the writer Édouard Glissant at the Fort de Joux (in the Jura), in the cell where the Haitian general Toussaint Louverture was held prisoner until his death in 1803. She then talks to Aimé Césaire at Le Diamant in Martinique, in front of Laurent Valère's "Cap 110" memorial. The documentary also includes short interviews with Roland Suvélor and Madeleine de Grandmaison, and the reading of texts performed by Greg Germain.