AN EXCAVATION OF US

category: documentaries, short films

AN EXCAVATION OF US

The shadows of Napoleon’s army fall upon a boat traveling through a mysterious cave named after her legend Marie Jeanne, a female soldier
who fought in the Haitian Revolution. It is this battle inside her cave that will become the most successful slave revolution in history

directed by SHIRLEY BRUNO
Shirley Bruno is a Haitian-­‐American filmmaker living and working between New York, France, and Haiti. She conjures up modern myths that expose the slippery spaces between the physical and metaphysical world, between collective memory and history. In her work she searches the everyday, the Sacred, and the intimate violence in the things left unsaid that mark us generation after generation. Her films draw from her Haitian heritage preserving and radicalizing her ancestral traditions and mythology.

Haiti | 2017 | 11 MINS