Edouard Glissant

Contre-histoire de la France d'outre-mer (2013)

In five parts, this documentary tells the story of the colonisation of the French Overseas Territories. Slave descendants, coloniser descendants, historians, admirals, rebellious writers and politicians recount a lasting past that keeps on igniting the eco ...

Édouard Glissant: One World in Relation (2009)

Manthia Diawara's film follows the Martinican thinker Édouard Glissant on a transatlantic journey as he discusses his philosophies of creollization, relation, and history. ...

Lumières Noires (2007)

Memory's Gaze (2003)

The filmmaker Sarah Maldoror films the writer Édouard Glissant at the Fort de Joux (in the Jura), in the cell where the Haitian general Toussaint Louverture was held prisoner until his death in 1803. She then talks to Aimé Césaire at Le Diamant in Marti ...

Ouvertures (2019)

Reflecting on the legacy of Haitian revolutionary Toussaint L'Ouverture, "Ouvertures" follows a collective's process of translating Édouard Glissant's play Monsieur Toussaint from French to Creole. ...