Read slavery in the film archives
Michel Martin
Michael Martin, a professor in the Department of communication and culture and program in american studies from the University of Indiana (Usa). He is also the director of the Black Film Center/Archive at Indiana University.
This address discusses memory, its historicity and its importance to the cinematic storytelling and readings of historical trauma. It is also the relevance of the memory for the project of manufacture of the world. This article will focus on the representation film of slavery in the plantation companies. Two films that go in this direction : Queimada ! (1969) of the deceased marxist Italian Gillo Pontecorvo and The Rue Cases-Nègres (1982) of the filmmaker martinique Euzhan Palcy.
