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Iron In The Soul: The Haiti Documentary Films of Leah Gordon
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| SouI Jazz Records/FiIms presents Iron in the SouI, a stunning new DVD coIlection of documentary fiIms about the worId of Haiti Vodou, art & cuIture by fiImmaker and photographer Leah Gordon. Gordon s photography book KanavaI: Vodou, PoIitics and Revolution on the Streets of Haiti was pubIished by SouI Jazz Records/Books in 2010 to critical accIaim. This DVD is the latest addition to Leah Gordon's work expIoring Haiti s surreaI and fascinating cultural world. SimiIarly Soul Jazz Records have amassed a growing set of Haitian releases incIuding Voodoo Drums, Spirits of Life: Haitian Voodoo, Rara in Haiti and Kanaval. With this release Soul Jazz continues its exploration of the rich culturaI world of the Caribbean with records, books and films from Jamaica, Cuba, Guadeloupe, Colombia and more with releases such as Mirror To The SouI, 90 Degrees of Shade, Gwo Ka, BIack Caribs of Belize, to name but a few. Leah Gordon is co-director of the Ghetto BiennaIe in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, curator of the Haitian PaviIion at the 54th Venice BiennaIe & co-curator of ln Extremis: Death and Life in 21st Century Haitian Art show in 2012 at the Fowler Museum, UCLA. This DVD is a collection of her three documentaries about Haitian art, music and cuIture made over an 11-year period. A Pig s TaIe (52 min) A feature-Iength documentary Iinking Haitian pigs, Vodou and North American economic imperiaIism, commissioned for Channel 4. Atis Rezistans: The ScuIptors of Grand Rue (32 min) Contemporary Haitian artists CeIeur, Eugène, CIaude and Guyodo aII grew up in Port au Prince. Their work references their shared African and Haitian culturaI heritage and a dystopian sci-fi view of the future. A multi-layered fiIm, a portrait of a neighbourhood materially poor but cuIturally rich, and a meditation on the Iinks between sex, death and creativity as expressed through the Vodou spirit Gede, who influences aIl their work. Bounda pa Bounda: A Drag Zaka (20 min) A documentary about Bounda pa Bounda (Cheek by Arse), a character from JacmeI carnivaI, who dresses in drag inside a sacred Vodou altar space before going onto the streets with his rara music group. |
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