Screening and discussion
Admission starts at $5
May 6, 2023, 5pm
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.