How can film help us see histories that have long been hidden — from the forced labour on indigo plantations in Haiti to the influence of Christian missions on fashion in Namibia and Jamaica? Beyond documenting the past, film can challenge dominant narratives, unearth silenced voices, and spark new ways of thinking about heritage, memory, and Afro-Indigenous knowledge.
This special evening celebrates the finissage of the BCDSS exhibition Enmeshed and Entwined: Fabrics of Dependency. It begins with the screening of two films by Haitian archaeologist Sony Jean and the Global Heritage Lab’s Visual Anthropology Fellow Yohannes Mulat Mekonnen. The screenings will be followed by a conversation with curators Beatrix Hoffmann-Ihde and Julia Binter, exploring how film can document, unmake, and reimagine the legacies of power and dependency. The audience is warmly invited to join the discussion and share drinks at the finissage.