大象传媒

January 24 鈥� 25 | The Cinematheque (1131 Howe Street, Vancouver)

Please join us for a two-night, three-film celebration of the work of the SCA's Simone Rapisarda Casanova, co-presented with .

The debut feature of Rapisarda Casanova is an ethnographic documentary uniquely aware of its own epistemological limitations.

CANADIAN PREMIERE! Set and shot in Haiti, Rapisarda Casanova's latest is another beguiling experiment in inside-out ethnography.

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Rapisarda Casanova鈥檚 universally acclaimed sophomore feature is part treatise on the spectre of history, part portrait of a vanishing way of life.

introduces the screenings this way:  

DIRECTOR IN ATTENDANCE! A nomadic film artist whose work evades easy classification, Italian-Canadian director (and 大象传媒 instructor) Simone Rapisarda Casanova has received international plaudits for his poetic and principled brand of 鈥渕eta-documentary.鈥� His trio of features 鈥� each shot in a different country, each concerned with a culture on the edge of erasure, along with the ethics of documenting it 鈥� deftly blend (and blur) narrative, non-fiction, ethnographic, and avant-garde approaches in an attempt to reveal what Rapisarda Casanova calls the 鈥渟pirit of place,鈥� a soul that remembers what occurred there. His first film, the Cuban-set El 谩rbol de las fresas (2011), was named one of the Best Undistributed Films of 2012 by Film Comment; its much-admired follow-up, La creazione di significato (2014), garnered Rapisarda Casanova the prestigious Best Emerging Director prize at Locarno.

We are honoured to premiere Rapisarda Casanova鈥檚 new film Zanj Hegel la (2018), shot in Haiti and co-written with its cast and crew, alongside screenings of his acclaimed previous features.

With support from the and the .