Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
The recurrent cycle Noir.e.s à la caméra allows us to discover works directed or produced by African or Afrodescendant filmmakers throughout the history of cinema.
The shadows of Napoleon's army fall upon a boat traveling through the mysterious cave named after her legend Marie Jeanne, a female soldier who fought in the Haitian Revolution. It is this battle inside her cave that will become the most successful slave revolution in history. (Shirley Bruno)
Shirley Bruno
A Haitian-American filmmaker and artist, Shirley Bruno's films take their point of departure from neglected histories as well as from rumors, dreams, superstitious beliefs, memories both real and imagined. Shirley's work has screened nationally and internationally at major festivals and contemporary art exhibitions. (Shirley Bruno)
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Filmmaker William Greaves auditioned acting students for a fiction movie, while simultaneously filming behind the scenes of the drama.
William Greaves
William Greaves (October 8, 1926 – August 25, 2014) was a documentary filmmaker and a pioneer of African-American filmmaking. He produced more than two hundred documentary films, and wrote and directed more than half of these. Greaves garnered many accolades for his work, including four Emmy nominations. (Wikipedia)
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Director William Greaves describes the term "Symbiotaxiplasm", which he got from Arthur F. Bentley's book Inquiry Into Inquiries: Essays in Social Theory , as as "those events that transpire in the course of anyone's life that have an impact on the consciousness and the psyche of the average human being, and how that human being also controls or effects changes or has an impact on the environment"...
