The Ballad Of Suzanne Cesaire
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How to tell the story of an artist who didn't want to be remembered? This experimental docufiction deconstructs the biopic to fascinating effect, assembling fragments to piece together the life of French-Martinican surrealist Suzanne Césaire.
Suzanne Césaire was a key figure in the Négritude movement, co-founding the dissident journal Tropiques while living on blockaded Martinique during World War Two. Yet her brilliance has historically been eclipsed by a focus on her male associates: her famous husband, Aimé Césaire (Martinique’s former President), and surrealist poet André Breton. Inspired by the experimental form of Césaire’s surviving writings, Hunt-Ehrlich deconstructs the biopic genre, acknowledging the impossibility of reviving a legacy that was wilfully erased. Preceded by Conspiracy (2022) a stunning short about sculptor Simone Leigh which pays further tribute to the unsung labour of Black female artists.
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- Program Strand
- FLUX
- Year
- 2024
- Classification
- All Ages
- Country
- USA
- Language
- In English and French with English subtitles
- Director
- Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich
- Producer
- Sophie Luo, Mike S. Ryan
- Cast
- Zita Hanrot, Josué Gutierrez, Motell Gyn Foster
- Screenwriter
- Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich, Marina Magloire
- Cinematographer
- Alex Ashe
- Editor
- Emily Packer, Nicole Otero
- Premiere
- Australian Premiere
- Genre
- Women Directors, Focus on Women, Biography, Filmmaking
- Company Credits
- Festival Contact: Sophie Luo
- Official Website
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