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THE AUDACITY OF THE CREOLE IMAGINATION
Trinidad & Tobago 2010
Director: Kim Johnson
Short film, 13 min
English spoken
no subtitles
A tribute to the early pan men and pan women of Trinidad and Tobago who against all odds fought for their freedom of expression through the unique and ever-evolving instrument that is the steel pan.
Kim Johnson Laureate for Caribbean Excellence in Arts & Letters, is the foremost historian of the steel pan. In 2010 he curated the multi-media museum exhibition The Audacity of the Creole Imagination in which the film was included.
This short film is part of the Round about African Shorts program, Shorts 1 Diaspora and will be screened with HEAR ME - NEGROPILITAIN - THE SUSPECT - THE VILLAGE