Premise
See what others cannot imagine.
Feel what others cannot sense.
Smell what others cannot taste.
Hear what others cannot comprehend.
Using the backdrop of the Crown Heights community (a historic enclave of the Caribbean-diaspora) currently at a crossroads, this film intends to create and capture the speculative visions of the neighborhood through the lens of a “seer woman”. Using a remix of the lavwè - "Papa Damballah" - sung by the legendary Haitian chanteusse Toto Bissanthe, the film captures the experiences of a woman based in present day Brooklyn. Conflicted with the changes in the neighborhood, she is torn about what the so-called progress means to her personally and to the people from whom she comes and considers her community. Going out into the streets, various landing points initiate a deep power within her. A power representing her own heritage and reflecting the community. The spaces and places she comes across everyday, awaken her to a gift with the ability to manifest the existence of a possibilities unseen by others.
Director/Choreographer/Editor
André M. Zachery
Roxann Remekie
Assistant Director
Cinematography + Photography
LaMont Hamilton
Molaundo Jones
Richard Louissaint
Costumer/Wardrobe
Candace Thompson
Brittany Williams
Starring
Tara Nicolas
Production Assistants
Candace Thompson + Rey Hall
