Is it home that creates memory, or is it one's memory that creates home? In this assemblage of films, 10 directors experiment with notions of both. Some traverse the emotional geographies of memory—across the Black Atlantic, over the prairie grasslands and into the border of Ukraine—while others delve into memory as a home base, delightfully employing stop-motion animation and visual hybridity to (re)locate childhoods, relationships and death in lives both lived and lost.
Audience Partner
SFU School for the Contemporary Arts
Using fragmented conversations, abstract images and snippets of text, Annabelle Aveturin disrupts the conventions of the typical family documentary. Her narrative focuses on the formidable experiences of her grandmother, whose family history and Caribbean identity provide a unique look at the struggle of the African diaspora. Video, film and music coalesce into a lush collage of sound and images. -KR
- Year2022
- Runtime31 minutes
- CountryGUADELOUPE
- DirectorAnnabelle Aventurin
Is it home that creates memory, or is it one's memory that creates home? In this assemblage of films, 10 directors experiment with notions of both. Some traverse the emotional geographies of memory—across the Black Atlantic, over the prairie grasslands and into the border of Ukraine—while others delve into memory as a home base, delightfully employing stop-motion animation and visual hybridity to (re)locate childhoods, relationships and death in lives both lived and lost.
Audience Partner
SFU School for the Contemporary Arts
Using fragmented conversations, abstract images and snippets of text, Annabelle Aveturin disrupts the conventions of the typical family documentary. Her narrative focuses on the formidable experiences of her grandmother, whose family history and Caribbean identity provide a unique look at the struggle of the African diaspora. Video, film and music coalesce into a lush collage of sound and images. -KR
- Year2022
- Runtime31 minutes
- CountryGUADELOUPE
- DirectorAnnabelle Aventurin