The films of Arlette Pacquit
Arlette Pacquit writes and directs films on Caribbean culture and colonial wounds. Formerly a journalist for the production company ICV and the television channel ATV (Antilles Télévision), Pacquit has had a highly diversified career. She has worked on the conception and presentation of political, economic, and cultural programs, as well as serving as a part-time lecturer at the Faculty of Letters and Humanities at the Université des Antilles in Martinique. Between 2005 and 2008, she collaborated with Aimé Césaire on various documentary projects. In 2007, Pacquit participated in the filming of Maskouloupété, a fictional film highlighting the work of social workers at a drug rehabilitation center in Fort-de-France. In the same year, she wrote and co-directed the documentary Bèlèkwazé, exploring the sacred aspects of the bèlè dance, a tradition inherited from slavery. Her feature film Sons and Daughters of Vietnam (2015), depicting the transmission of trauma from the Indochina War to the Martinican-Vietnamese generations, has been selected and awarded multiple times at festivals. Always seeking keys to understand the world, she presents in 2021 Monchoachi, An Untamed Wor(l)d), focusing on a poet and thinker of Creole language.
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Sons and Daughters of Vietnam
They are part of the first generation after the Indochina War. They were born in Vietnam or Martinique. They have inherited a unique and conflicting history. They are wounded by silence, rejection, and misunderstandings. Their fathers, Martinican soldiers, took part in this conflict alongside mainland French forces and all other colonial forces from 1946 to 1954. Their Vietnamese mothers experi...
Monchoachi, An Untamed Wor(l)d
Monchoachi, An Untamed Wor(l)d
Duration: 2h18Retired from the world and residing in the foothills of the Vauclin mountain in Martinique, Monchoachi writes every afternoon after his morning walk through the island's forests. A poet (he insists one should pronounce this word trembling), philosopher and essayist, he endeavours to construct a thought he describes as untamed—a thought detached from the Occident, and therefore inherently free. ...
Sons and Daughters of Vietnam
They are part of the first generation after the Indochina War. They were born in Vietnam or Martinique. They have inherited a unique and conflicting history. They are wounded by silence, rejection, and misunderstandings. Their fathers, Martinican soldiers, took part in this conflict alongside mainland French forces and all other colonial forces from 1946 to 1954. Their Vietnamese mothers experi...
Monchoachi, An Untamed Wor(l)d
Monchoachi, An Untamed Wor(l)d
Duration: 2h18Retired from the world and residing in the foothills of the Vauclin mountain in Martinique, Monchoachi writes every afternoon after his morning walk through the island's forests. A poet (he insists one should pronounce this word trembling), philosopher and essayist, he endeavours to construct a thought he describes as untamed—a thought detached from the Occident, and therefore inherently free. ...
