Trinidad + Tobago Film Festival Tobago und Trinidad, Caribbean Islands

Founded in 2006, the trinidad+tobago film festival (ttff) is an annual celebration of films from and about Trinidad and Tobago, the Caribbean and its diaspora. The Festival also screens films curated from contemporary world cinema. In addition, the ttff seeks to facilitate the growth of the Caribbean film industry by hosting workshops, panel discussions, seminars, conferences and networking opportunities. The eighth edition of the Festival takes place 17 September 17th - October 1st 2013.

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Alberta Whittle
Barbados
2012 | 0:09:42

Ecstatic Grace – Poised, explores the potential of the landscape to act as a site for the exploration of mythologies, mysticism and rituals found throughout history, and art. The insistent use of colour punctuates the landscape, which simulates both familiar and personal locations for enacting shared histories. Encountering a trio of personas, who move through the landscape, they transform into multiple personalities, which hint a new reality.

Nile Saulter
Jamaica
2012 | 0:05:24

The rugged beauty of Dakar, Senegal’s capital and Africa’s westernmost city, is seen through the eyes of a young father. He traverses the bustling streets and glides along the serene coastline of this metropolis, searching, for his child - himself.

Ryan Oduber
Aruba
2012 | 0:12:04

A carnival queen, her king, and the mob of revelers they rule – this is a playful yet dark social commentary on the influence of power, celebrity and machismo within Caribbean society.

Sasha Huber and Petri Saarikko
Haiti
2011 | 0:11:21

Cultures are filled with methods of self-help and medical healing. When it comes to health, we rarely use our common sense and environmental awareness to make second guesses. They contain strands of cultural knowledge that celebrate a heritage. Perhaps people’s attitudes to healing are inscribed into beliefs and the enactment of narrative remedies. In 2011 Huber and Saarikko collaborated with the Botkyrka artist residency in Fittja and documented communal and practical remedies that were pervasive through the community.

Olivia McGilchrist
Jamaica
2012 | 0:22:38

Fueled by nostalgia, loss and mourning, the works in McGilchrist’s “My Dear Daddy” series re-figure the aura of her late father by mapping out a personal world inhabited by herself as a masked figure portrayed in a variety of domestic and picturesque Caribbean spaces.

Christian Bertin
Martinique
2011 | 0:05:40

Precheur is a performance art piece that draws on the words of Gabriel Henry and Aimé Césaire to recollect the tensions, revolts and ultimate triumph that surrounded the abolition of slavery in Martinique on May 22,1848.

Abigail Hadeed
Trinidad + Tobago
2012 | 0:04:04

Between The Lines This experimental film explores and follows the frenzied, chaotic, moving shadows cast on the roads by Moko Jumbie Carnival characters. The Sun, like a ‘God above’, beats down on the Moko Jumbies. Shadows are elusive, signifying the paradox of Carnival as a street art for the living…while conjuring up ancestral ghosts and spirits. Shadows and lines on the road might be metaphors for the journey of life, how we walk a fine line between good and other, balancing our life choices.

Emile Upczak
Trinidad + Tobago
2012 | 0:03:37

This piece was filmed inside an operational steel plant in Trinidad. It reflects a side of the country’s economy that is rarely envisioned when one imagines the Caribbean. Melting iron ore requires enormous amounts of energy; Trinidad & Tobago’s wealth of natural gas is why this industrial process takes place on the island. Iron ore is mined in various places such as Brazil, Canada and Peru, and shipped to a port in Trinidad where it is transformed into steel. The function of separating and melting iron ore to create steel beams and other steel products is a dangerous, violent and visually hypnotic process. The raw and mechanical visual function of the plant is tempered by the music of Erik Satie "After the Rain".