The film choice of Deborah Jack

The Saint Martin poet Drisana Deborah Jack compiled a programme of fragments of films on memory and time. English spoken.

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Date and time Friday 20 January 2006 21:35 tot 22:01 uur
Location Filmhuis - zaal 4

The fickleness of memory is an important theme in the work of Drisana Deborah Jack, a poet and artist from St Martin. What do our memories mean? Why do we remember one thing and forget the other? She not only investigates personal memory but also collective cultural memory and the loss of memory. She compiled a programme of fragments of films for Winternachten, in which memory and time are depicted as a non-linear experience. With amongst others fragments from Daughters of the Dust by Julie Dash (1991), Beloved by Jonathan Demme with Oprah Winfrey (1998), and Memento by Christopher Nolan (2000). English spoken.

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Drisana Deborah Jack

(St. Martin, Netherlands Antilles) is a poet and visual artist. Her work currently deals with trans-cultural existence, memory, the effects of colonialism and mythology through re-memory. Salt, the sea and hurricanes reoccur as metaphors in her body of work. In her poetry and visual art she tries to go beyond the parameters of style and genres. Her literature is as much music, dance and art as it is text. For her artwork, which is an expression of a personal and cultural history, she uses paint, video, photography, sound and poetry. She has published two poetry collections, The Rainy Season (1997) and Skin (2006). Her visual art has been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally. Her poetry has appeared in The Caribbean Writer and Calabash and has recited her work in the Caribbean, United States, South Africa and the Netherlands. Deborah Jack is an Assistant Professor of Art at New Jersey City University.
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