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Ethnic Expressions
Ethnic Expressions from the Mosaic of the Americas
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With Producer Ann Armstrong Scarboro of Mosaic Media Arts, Full Duck Productions has directed and edited the documentary series, "Ethnic Expressions from the Mosaic of the Americas." These dynamic interviews with writers and artists whose roots lie in the Caribbean present their vision, passion and art, along with historical background and visual illustration. The documentary videos are suitable for upper-secondary or college classes in ethnic literature, multiculturalism, history, French language, Caribbean studies, and creative writing. They address topics of slavery, cultural alienation and regeneration, Creole culture, French policies in the colonies, Caribbean politics, Caribbean literature and art, and the role of the artist. Some titles available in French and English or with Teacher's Guide. More titles to come. A video based on an interview with Edwidge Danticat will be released in 2005.
Victor Anicet
Victor Anicet
Victor Anicet, Martinican Ceramist, Artist and Historian:This internationally recognized ceramist, who studied in France, England and Germany as well as Martinique, gave this interview during a show of his work at the Université Antilles-Guyane in November, 2001. Anicet, a seeker of shadows, a restorer and rejuvenator of the past and a diligent scholar, creates works of art that bring objects and symbols from the culture of his Amerindian ancestors to life for the modern world. In the interview he speaks passionately about this quest, describes his extensive training in ceramics, and shows many of his sculptures and paintings. Among the topics he addresses are the Spanish conquest of the Caribbean islands, the vital heritage left behind by the Amerindians, the horrors of slavery, the multiple races that compose Caribbean society today and the richness of Caribbean culture. A recent inductee of the prestigious Académie Internationale de la Céramique and a celebrated citizen in his native village of Marigot, Anicet describes how his richly textured art includes both real and symbolic elements of African cloth, masks, slave irons, slave ships, East Indian trays, and Amerindian dogs.
Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat
Haitian author, most recently of Brother, I'm Dying and The Dew Breaker, winner of the 2005 Story Prize and up for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award; her other novels are Breath, Eyes, Memory; Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist; and The Farming of Bones, an American Book Award winner.
Maryse Condé Speaks from the Heart
Maryse Condé
This masterful author gave this interview where she spoke about her childhood, her passion for honesty, her compassion for women, her love of family and her respect for the craft of writing. She describes her experiences with racism in France and the U.S. and the controversy her books have caused.
Aimé Césaire, Poet and Statesman
Aimé Césaire
In this interview with the world-renowned French Caribbean poet and political activist from Martinique, Aimé Césaire speaks about his student days in Paris, his growth as a poet and politician, his passion for the Martinique landscape, his battle against assimilation of the French Caribbean people by France, and his seminal masterpiece, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land.
Jocelyn Valverde: French Caribbean Poet
Jocelyn Valverde
This French Caribbean poet, whose parents are from Guadeloupe, gave this interview where he focuses on the history of slavery in the French colonies, cultural alienation, French Caribbean culture, poetic sensitivity, the creative process and the importance of nature and spirituality.
Raphaël Confiant
Raphaël Confiant
The prolific French Caribbean writer from Martinique, who writes in both French and Creole, gave this keynote speech in which he describes his evolution as a writer, his passion for Creole culture and issues of French writers.
