Emanuel Licha
Artist and filmmaker Emanuel Licha was born in Montreal in 1971. He first studied urban geography before devoting himself to the visual arts. His works, video installations and photographs focus on the role of architecture in the representation of conflict. This leads him to consider the objects of the urban landscape as social, historical and political indices. His recent projects question the means used to observe and witness violent and traumatic events. After his first feature film Hotel Machine about war hotels in 2016, he directed zo reken, in which he focuses on the politics of humanitarian aid from a vehicle used by international organizations. The film won several awards, including Best Canadian Feature Documentary at the Hot Docs festival, Grand Prize in the National Feature Film Competition at RIDM, and Best Documentary Film at the Sofia International Film Festival. Emmanuel Licha is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Art History and Film Studies at the Université de Montréal / Tiohtià:ke.
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zo reken ("shark bone") is the nickname given in Haiti to the Toyota Land Cruiser, a powerful all-terrain vehicle, very popular with international humanitarian organizations that have been present in the country since the 2010 earthquake. Ten years later, a *zo reken* is diverted from its usual use to become a mobile space for meetings and discussions between Haitians. No more foreign humanitar...
zo reken
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zo reken ("shark bone") is the nickname given in Haiti to the Toyota Land Cruiser, a powerful all-terrain vehicle, very popular with international humanitarian organizations that have been present in the country since the 2010 earthquake. Ten years later, a *zo reken* is diverted from its usual use to become a mobile space for meetings and discussions between Haitians. No more foreign humanitar...
