GEDE VIZYON, video, 14m20s, 2018
GEDE VIZYON, video, 14m20s, 2018
Gede Vizyon takes the viewer on an unusual tour of the Grand Cemetery of Port-au-Prince: a goat, with action cameras mounted on its horns, runs loose through the labyrinthine structure of the cemetery. It captures images and sounds on its way. In response to this documentation, Hougan Jean-Daniel Lafontant creates poetry that becomes narration, as Mambo Jacqueline sings Vodou hymns that become soundtrack. Produced as part of the 5th Ghetto Biennale of Haiti, in collaboration with Marcos Serafim and Steevens Simeon.
AWARDS
Audience Choice Award, Burnt Video Art and Experimental Film Festival, Canada, 2021.
Best Experimental, Buenos Aires Film Festival, Argentina, 2018.
2nd Place Jury Award, Horn Festival for Experimental Film, Israel, 2018.
Honorary Mention, Northampton Film Festival, USA, 2018.
SCREENINGS
2025
Queerness & Spirituality in Haiti. Screening of “Gede Vizyon” and “Masisi Wouj”. Oberlin College, USA.
2024
Kortfilmfestivalen, 46th Norwegian Short Film Festival. Curated screening, “Gede Vizyon”. Grimstad, Norway.
2022
Expanded Nature. Curated screening, “Gede Vizyon”. National Museum of Natural History in Paris, Jardin des plantes, Paris, France.
13th Strangloscope: Experimental Audio, Video/Film and Performance Festival. Curated screening, “Gede Vizyon”. Florianópolis, Brazil.
Burnt - Video Art and Experimental Film Festival. Official selection, “Gede Vizyon”. Montreal, Canada.
Wild Out Video Festival. Official selection, “Gede Vizyon”. Taipei, Taiwan.
2019
6th Ghetto Biennale. Juried, group exhibition. Screening of “Gede Vizyon” and “Masisi Wouj”, E. Pluribus Unum Musée d’Art, Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Bienal Internacional de Curitiba – Pólo SC, curated group exhibition, “Gede Vizyon”, O Sítio Arte e Tecnologia, Florianópolis, Brazil.
PÒTOPRENS: The Urban Artists of Port-au-Prince, curated group exhibition, “Gede Vizyon”. Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami (MOCA), FL.
EMPAC Film Series: Short Shadows, curated film/video screening, “Gede Vizyon”. EMPAC, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Troy, USA.
Gede: A Celebration of Life and Death in Vodou, “Gede Vizyon”, screening and roundtable, 2018. Pioneer Works, NYC.
Metakino #3: Environment, curated video program, “Gede Vizyon”, 2019. Program: Fauna / WHS Teatteri Union, Helsinki, Finland.
19th aluCine – Latin Film and Media Arts Festival, official selection, “Gede Vizyon”, 2019. Program: Latin and Canadian Experimental / Toronto, Canada.
Emerging, curated group exhibition, “Gede Vizyon”, ARC Gallery, Chicago.
Santiago Independent Film Awards, official selection, “Gede Vizyon”. Online festival, July 2019. Santiago, Chile.
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, official selection, “Gede Vizyon”. Heart of Hawick, Scotland.
Broad Underground Film Series: Fractured Landscapes, curated video screening, “Gede Vizyon”. Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at MSU and The Robin Theater, Lansing, MI.
Mostra Filme Livre, juried group exhibition, “Gede Vizyon”. Rio de Janeiro, Niterói, Brasília and São Paulo, Brazil.
Revolutions Per Minute Festival, official selection, “Gede Vizyon”. UMass Boston, Boston, USA.
CineKasimanwa: The Western Visayas Film Festival. 6th Edition, official selection, “Gede Vizyon”. The Iloilo Museum of Contemporary Art and Et Nos Gallery, Iloilo City, Philippines.
2018
Nuit Blanche de Port-au-Prince / Pòtoprens Jouk li Jou. Official selection, “Gede Vizyon”. Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
10a Semana de Cinema, official selection, “Gede Vizyon”. Rio de Janeiro and Niteroi, Brazil.
Gede: A Celebration of Life and Death in Vodou, PÒTOPRENS: The Urban Artists of Port-au-Prince", “Gede Vizyon”. Pioneer Works, NYC.
November Film Festival, official selection, “Gede Vizyon”. Close-Up Film Centre, London, UK.
Alternative Film/Video 2018, official selection, “Gede Vizyon”. Academic Film Center, Belgrade, Serbia.
Northampton Film Festival, “Gede Vizyon”, Northampton, USA.
Saunter Trek Escort Parade, “Gede Vizyon”. Flux Factory, Queens Museum, NYC.
Media City Film Festival, official selection, “Gede Vizyon”, Windsor, Canada; and Detroit, USA.
IV Cinecaos, official selection, “Gede Vizyon”. Museu da Imagem e do Som (MISC), Cuiabá, Brazil.
The Unseen Festival, official selection, “Gede Vizyon”. OFF Cinema and Counterpath, Denver, USA.
Horn Festival for Experimental Film, official selection, “Gede Vizyon”. Musrara Art School, Jerusalem, and Tel Aviv, Israel.
DOBRA - International Festival for Experimental Film, official selection, “Gede Vizyon”. Cinemateca, Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Passive Activists II - the Healthy Intercuts, official selection, “Gede Vizyon”. Holaa! at Moose Art Space, The Hague, Netherlands.