BY LOCAL IN THE TTFF

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Quiet Desperation, the story of an unstatisfied middle-aged man

A number of local feature-length and short films are screening at the trinidad+tobago film festival/10 (ttff/10), currently taking place and running until October 5.

Approximately one-third of the films screening at the Festival, which is presented by Flow, are local films. These comprise both dramatic and documentary films. One of the documentaries being screened is Live From Trinidad & Tobago, directed by Curtis Popplewell and Walt Lovelace. Filmed across three weeks in Europe in 2009, Live From Trinidad &Tobago is a behind-the-scenes view of the Caribbean Invasion tour featuring the musicians Maximus Dan, Marlon Asher and Jah Melody.

Another documentary being shown is Sonya Dumas' Julia and Joyce: Two Stories of Two Dance Pioneers. This film looks at aspects of the local dance world and its impact through the eyes of two dance legends, Julia Edwards and Joyce Kirton, in an attempt to capture some of the history of dance in T&T.

Other documentaries include The Amerindians, by Tracy Assing and Sophie Meyer, about the Santa Rosa Carib community; Mandisa Pantin's Caribbean Skin, African Identity, an exploration of what it means to be African in Trinidad; and The Audacity of the Creole Imagination, Kim Johnson's short film about the origins of pan.

Among the dramatic films being shown is The Blood and the Bois, a supernatural drama about the restless spirit of a stickfighter, unable to be at peace until his death is avenged. Directed by Sigmond Cromwell, the film stars Che Rodriguez and Curtis Gross. Another of the dramas is Renée Pollonais' Quiet Desperation, the story of an unstatisfied middle-aged man, Heathcliff, and his critical and controlling wife, Merlin.

For more information on these and all the films screening at the ttff/10, including screening locations, dates and times, go to www.trinidadandtobagofilmfestival.com.

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ON NOW IN ALICE YARD

Ebony Patterson - Upper Annex


Keisha Castello - The Box


Marvin Bartley- The Annex (main)

The Galleries: Annex, Upper Annex, Box, and Bandroom Nook

SHOT IN KINGSTON

The exploration of digital photo- and video-based work is a significant recent trend among younger Jamaican artists. Shot in Kingston assembles work by Marvin Bartley, Keisha Castello, Stefan Clarke, Marlon James, O’Neil Lawrence, Ebony Patterson, and Oneika Russell, curated by Christopher Cozier and O’Neil Lawrence.

Galleries Open: Friday 24 September, Monday 27 September & Wednesday 29 September (8.00 to 10.00 pm), or by special request.

UP NEXT

= Friday 24 September: Outward reach
Alice Yard’s Caribbean network includes independent contemporary art institutions in the Bahamas and Suriname. Artists John Cox of Popopstudios in Nassau and Marcel Pinas of the Kibii Wi Foundation in Moengo join Christopher Cozier in a conversation about regional collaborations and future possibilities.
8.00 pm

= Monday 27 September: Heino Schmidt: Equilibrium
Bahamian artist Heino Schmidt has been living and working at Alice Yard since May 2010, supported by a Commonwealth Connections International Arts Residency. Equilibrium is a new work created during his time in Port of Spain, also presented at the 2010 Liverpool Biennial.
8.00 pm

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= Wednesday 29 September: O’Neil Lawrence on the Kingston scene

O’Neil Lawrence is an artist and curator at the National Gallery of Jamaica. He will give an informal talk on current trends in Jamaica and the artists included in Shot in Kingston.

8.00 pm

= Friday 1 October: Sheena Rose and Lauren Hinds
Barbadian Sheena Rose was artist in residence at Alice Yard in May 2009, when she presented her animated video work Town. She recently participated in a residency and exhibition in Cape Town. Lauren Hinds is a Trinidadian artist working in the medium of the graphic novel. She recently completed a year-long programme at the Centre for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont. Rose and Hinds will spend a week working together, then present their collaborative project to the public, together with recent solo works.
8.00 pm

About Alice Yard

80 Roberts Street, Woodbrook

Alice Yard Space is a small gallery in the backyard of 80 Roberts Street--a nine-by-seven-by-ten-foot concrete and glass box designed by architect Sean Leonard, which opens in September 2007. It is just large enough to fit an artist's installation, a video work, a few drawings or paintings. Since September 2006, Alice Yard has been home to a series of weekly Friday-night "Conversations", bringing musicians, artists, writers, and audiences together for informal performances and interactions. The gallery now creates the possibility for another kind of conversation, by offering contemporary artists a space to show a carefully selected piece of recent work, or even work in progress. The concept evolved from a conversation between Sean Leonard and artist Christopher Cozier, and through a series of drawings in a sketchbook they shared over a period of six months. They conceived of a modest space where artists can experiment with ideas and works not normally feasible in a commercial gallery. They are inviting other artists to join in their sketchbook conversation, as it were, and also inviting viewers into the process. Alice Yard Space asks questions about the relationship between artists and their community, outside the conventional bounds of the art market (but not oblivious to commercial concerns).

Holding the strain

Mervyn Morris on the life and poetic achievement of Wayne Brown (1944–2009)

Wayne Brown in his early twenties. Photograph courtesy Mariel Brown

I first met Wayne Brown late in 1966, when I returned to the University of the West Indies to be warden of Taylor Hall. He was one of the outstanding personalities on the Mona campus, his brilliance widely recognised and sometimes resented. I was struck by his intellectual confidence and amused by a verbal playfulness I still consider characteristically Trinidadian. He was already committed to the special importance of the imagination, and wittily dismissive of anyone, including some of his teachers, who seemed to have other priorities. His early poems are often, at least in part, about creativity. “Something’s underground alive” (“The Approach”). The persona in “Remu” (a tide race) declares:

I would write poems like mainsails drawn
up the bent masts of motor schooners
floundering in the remu’s flow:
held clear of that chaos, but quivering,
holding the strain below.

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