By Annlee Ellingson
(from the 2011 Aruba International Film Festival)
Among the highlights of the 2011 Aruba International Film Festival has been its Caribbean Spotlight Series — a collection of contemporary regional cinema showcasing features, documentaries and shorts from Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, Curaçao, Montserrat, Bermuda, Jamaica, Cuba and Aruba. Curated by Aruban filmmaker Aaron Hosé, the program provides a rich and varied sampling of Caribbean filmmaking:
“Curaçao” (documentary): In a particularly stunning achievement, Dutch filmmakers Sarah Vos and Sander Snoep expose the culture of indifference and ignorance on the former island colony of Curaçao, where white immigrants from the Netherlands settle in real-estate developments on land they’re told has no history, mingle at private golf resorts and blithely discuss the habits of their neighbors, the black Antilleans descended from African slaves imported during the 17th century. No comment is made on these proceedings, but the simple juxtaposition of historical texts...
(from the 2011 Aruba International Film Festival)
Among the highlights of the 2011 Aruba International Film Festival has been its Caribbean Spotlight Series — a collection of contemporary regional cinema showcasing features, documentaries and shorts from Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, Curaçao, Montserrat, Bermuda, Jamaica, Cuba and Aruba. Curated by Aruban filmmaker Aaron Hosé, the program provides a rich and varied sampling of Caribbean filmmaking:
“Curaçao” (documentary): In a particularly stunning achievement, Dutch filmmakers Sarah Vos and Sander Snoep expose the culture of indifference and ignorance on the former island colony of Curaçao, where white immigrants from the Netherlands settle in real-estate developments on land they’re told has no history, mingle at private golf resorts and blithely discuss the habits of their neighbors, the black Antilleans descended from African slaves imported during the 17th century. No comment is made on these proceedings, but the simple juxtaposition of historical texts...
- 6/13/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
By Annlee Ellingson
(from the 2011 Aruba International Film Festival)
Among the highlights of the 2011 Aruba International Film Festival has been its Caribbean Spotlight Series — a collection of contemporary regional cinema showcasing features, documentaries and shorts from Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, Curaçao, Montserrat, Bermuda, Jamaica, Cuba and Aruba. Curated by Aruban filmmaker Aaron Hosé, the program provides a rich and varied sampling of Caribbean filmmaking:
“Curaçao” (documentary): In a particularly stunning achievement, Dutch filmmakers Sarah Vos and Sander Snoep expose the culture of indifference and ignorance on the former island colony of Curaçao, where white immigrants from the Netherlands settle in real-estate developments on land they’re told has no history, mingle at private golf resorts and blithely discuss the habits of their neighbors, the black Antilleans descended from African slaves imported during the 17th century. No comment is made on these proceedings, but the simple juxtaposition of historical texts...
(from the 2011 Aruba International Film Festival)
Among the highlights of the 2011 Aruba International Film Festival has been its Caribbean Spotlight Series — a collection of contemporary regional cinema showcasing features, documentaries and shorts from Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, Curaçao, Montserrat, Bermuda, Jamaica, Cuba and Aruba. Curated by Aruban filmmaker Aaron Hosé, the program provides a rich and varied sampling of Caribbean filmmaking:
“Curaçao” (documentary): In a particularly stunning achievement, Dutch filmmakers Sarah Vos and Sander Snoep expose the culture of indifference and ignorance on the former island colony of Curaçao, where white immigrants from the Netherlands settle in real-estate developments on land they’re told has no history, mingle at private golf resorts and blithely discuss the habits of their neighbors, the black Antilleans descended from African slaves imported during the 17th century. No comment is made on these proceedings, but the simple juxtaposition of historical texts...
- 6/13/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
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