Haitian Film Series: Jacques Stephen Alexis: Dead Without a Burial Site
Sponsor(s): Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Trinity College
Cost: Free and open to the public
Dir. Arnold Antonin (2015). 95min | French and Creole with English subtitles
Jacques Stephen Alexis is certainly one of the most prominent writers of Haiti and the Caribbean. This film shows the efforts to find records and decipher the mystery of his disappearance. At the same time, it makes us discover the revolutionary, the thinker, the man of science, the loving father and the great writer.
Co-sponosred by the Haiti Lab
Contact: Jacques Pierre