En 1791, à Haïti, Dutty Boukman a présidé à un rituel vaudou à Bois-Caïman qui a conduit à la création de la première république noire. Depuis, les rituels de transformation et d'expression artistique sont au cœur d'une culture florissante alors que le pays fait face à l'oppression, à la pauvreté et aux catastrophes naturelles."Kite Zo A" (Leave the Bones) est un film sensoriel sur les rituels en Haïti, de l'ancien au moderne, réalisé en collaboration avec des poètes, des danseurs, des musiciens, des pêcheurs, des amateurs de roller et des prêtres vaudou, sur des poèmes de l'auteur haïtien Wood-Jerry Gabriel.
In 1791, in Haiti, Dutty Boukman presided over a Vodou ritual in Bois-Caïman that led to the creation of the first Black republic. Since then, rituals of transformation and artistic expression have been at the core of a thriving culture as the country faces oppression, poverty, and natural disasters. KITE ZO A (Leave the Bones) is a sensorial film about rituals in Haiti, from ancient to modern, made in collaboration with poets, dancers, musicians, fishermen, daredevil rollerbladers, and Vodou priests, set to poetry by Haitian author Wood-Jerry Gabriel.
Kaveh Nabatian is an Iranian-Canadian artist whose evocative filmmaking has brought to life stories from the margins of society and across the world: Cuba, Haiti, Nunavut, India, and beyond. His film work ranges from A CRACK IN EVERYTHING, a feature doc about Leonard Cohen, to masterminding the Rotterdam-premiering, experimental, seven-director anthology feature THE SEVEN LAST WORDS, to his award-winning feature narrative debut, the Cuba-set and shot SIN LA HABANA. As a composer and trumpet player, he’s toured the world and released several critically-acclaimed albums with his Juno award-winning band Bell Orchestre.
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