EAT, FOR THIS IS MY BODY
by Michelange Quay
Synopsis: A visceral, hypnotic trip that will take us to the spiritual core of the suffering of Haiti. Madame has come to feed the starving black masses and they have come to be fed. This hunger, this desire will bring Madame out into the real Haiti, where she will for the first time see and hear the land and its people, smell the reality of their suffering, the reality of her own body. She will at last touch, and be touched.
Cast: Sylvie Testud, Catherine Samie.
2007 / Haiti, France / 105 min / French, Creole.
“Quay’s feature debut is a visually stunning and occasionally disturbing meditation about the ghosts of French colonialism in contemporary Haiti. Full of dreamlike contrasts between documentary-style footage and perfectly poised and studied moments, the film finds its own rhythms and ways of suggesting ideas and emotions. Quay is definitely an artist to watch”
— Now Toronto
