In one of our first conversations 1 you mentioned Out 1: Noli M e T angere 2 (1971) as a starting point, a source of inspiration, to think about the play Monsieur Toussaint by Édouard Glissant. A longer version of this dialogue was published in Tell It to the Stones: Encounters with the Films of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub, edited by Annett Busch and Tobias Hering (Sternberg Press, 2021).Īnnett Busch (AB): Let’s start with beginnings, the idea of beginnings, with affinities, with Jacques Rivette. The film, directed by Louis Henderson in collaboration with the Living and the Dead Ensemble, is a visual and sonic exploration of the history of Haiti and a captivating attempt to bring the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture back to life. This dialogue is published on the occasion of a screening of Ouvertures (2020) at e-flux Screening Room on May 6, 2023. Film still from Ouvertures, directed by Louis Henderson and Olivier Marboeuf, 2020.
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