The screening includes two films by Haitian-Canadian filmmaker Miryam Charles, exploring the ripple effects of grief and diasporic displacement. Shot on 16mm, these textured, exquisitely haunting films reflect on the passing of time, memory and an alternative future after an immeasurable loss. Moving geographically between Canada, Haiti and the United States, the films’ experimental nature invites a more critical mode of spectatorship, to look beyond and within. – Ufuoma Essi

PROGRAMME

Miryam Charles, All the Days of May, 2023 (7 min) – Following the shooting of a documentary on the death of her daughter, a mother reflects on her own life and especially on the passing of time.

Miryam Charles, This House, 2022 (1h 15 min) – Bridgeport, January 2008. A teenage girl is found hanged in her room. While everything points to suicide, the autopsy report reveals something else. Ten years later, the director and cousin of the teenager examine the past causes and future consequences of this unsolved crime. Like an imagined biography, the film will explore the relationship between the security of the living space and the violence that can jeopardise it.

Attention: Themes of death, grief, and suicide.