Films
Uncilivilized
In 2017 Michael set out to the forest with nothing more than some basic tools, religious texts and camera gear. His goal: to find a way out of the modern perils of overconsumption, technology addiction and global warming. But three months in, Cat 5 Hurricane Maria - one of the most powerful hurricanes of all time - made a direct hit on Michael’s island. All of a sudden, the entire island must reckon with itself as the entire population is sent back to the stone age
HOME MOVIE TAPE: THE COVID YEARS
‘Home movie tape’ is a short collage piece made in the tradition of home movies. It combines a collection of footage taken through the Covid-19 pandemic in Dominica, with audio from interviews with the filmmaker’s friends on life, love, death, and having kids in these trying times. Loose in form, with the filmmaker’s own voice absent, the film invites the audience to draw their own conclusions. Primarily shot on iPhone.
The Covid Years Trailer
Moving Back, Looking Forward | Creative Repair
‘‘For me nature is the thing that heals, it kind of softens… I think that we still have a lot of healing to be done in Dominica…’
‘New shoots of growth… documenting growth is my healing’
Carol Sorhaindo is a Dominican artist and designer. Her research interests connect her to place through explorations of the historic threads that entangle transatlantic botanical and human narratives.
In this film Carol reflects on her artistic practice, how her work with fraying threads, organic materials and natural dyes speak to a sense of healing. Healing in relation to painful histories of plantation enslavement and settlement. Healing in the aftermath hurricanes.
The film introduces her current work, the Nature of Ruins, as we see her creating natural dyes and her work hanging in former sugar mill on Dominica’s East Coast, reclaimed by vines and trees.
Indigenous Origins
Explore the cultivation of cassava by descendants of the Kalinago in Dominica. For generations, cassava has been a crucial part of the Kalinago tradition in Dominica, linking the past, present, and future of the community. This highly nutritious superfood provides the highest yield of food energy and is a staple food in the Caribbean.
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