"An intoxicating reverie." - Jessica Kiang, Variety
"A wildly original portrait." - Stephen Saito, Moveable Fest
For her debut feature, Madeleine Hunt Ehrlich elegantly explores the history and memory of Suzanne Césaire: writer, scholar, and activist. Artists and an actress (Zita Hanrot) gather to stage imagined and interpreted moments from Césaire’s life, reenacting and restoring the legacy of an artist who, Hanrot declares to the camera, “didn’t want to be remembered.” Shot on 16mm and discarding any and all biopic conventions, Hunt-Ehrlich takes a radical, metatextual approach to rewrite Césaire back into history, laying the creative process bare, resulting in a hypnotic, vivid, and entirely original portrait. Siskel Film Center exclusive. Select showtimes will be presented on 35mm, check back for details.
Awards & Nominations
Winner - Experimental Film Award, National Society of Film Critics Awards
Nominee - Tiger Award, International Film Festival Rotterdam
Official Selection - New York Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Vienna International Film Festival
The Film Center is ADA accessible. This presentation will be projected without open captions. The theater is hearing-loop equipped. For accessibility requests, please email filmcenter@saic.edu