Louis Henderson: Ouvertures

Louis Henderson: Ouvertures

Louis Henderson: Ouvertures
Screening and discussion

Admission starts at $5

Date
May 6, 2023, 5pm
172 Classon Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11205
USA

Join us at e-flux Screening Room on Saturday, May 6 at 5pm for Ouvertures, a film directed by Louis Henderson together with The Living and the Dead Ensemble. The screening will be followed by an in-person discussion with Louis Henderson.

The Living and the Dead Ensemble, Ouvertures (2020, 132 minutes)
Moving from the frozen landscapes of the Jura mountains to the urban centers of Port-au-Prince, Ouvertures brings the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture back to life. In France a Haitian researcher tries to read the past within the stratigraphic layers of Jurassic limestone, whilst in Haiti a group of young actors translate and rehearse scenes from Monsieur Toussaint (1981), a play written by Édouard Glissant that recounts the last days in the life of Louverture dying in exile in a prison cell in the Jura, 1803. Ghosts from the pantheon of Haitian history visit Louverture on his deathbed and bring him to trial. As the play proceeds, the actors become possessed by their characters and, eventually, the ghost of Louverture joins the group and takes them on a voyage for a new kind of exile.

For more information, contact program@e-flux.com.

Accessibility                
–Two flights of stairs lead up to the building’s front entrance at 172 Classon Avenue.     
–For elevator access, please RSVP to program@e-flux.com. The building has a freight elevator which leads into the e-flux office space. Entrance to the elevator is nearest to 180 Classon Ave (a garage door). We have a ramp for the steps within the space.              
–e-flux has an ADA-compliant bathroom. There are no steps between the Screening Room and this bathroom.

Category
Film, Theater, Literature, Colonialism & Imperialism
Subject
Ghosts & Spirits, Revolution, Geology

Louis Henderson is a filmmaker and writer who experiments with different ways of working with people to address and question our current global condition defined by racial capitalism and the ever-present histories of the European colonial project. Henderson’s films and installations are shown regularly in various international film festivals, art museums, and biennials and are distributed by LUX and Video Data Bank. His writing has been published in both print and online in books and journals. He lives and works in Paris and Berlin, and is a member of the SWRG.

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