Program: 7:00p

Offsite
Peter Jay Sharp Building
BAM Rose Cinemas
Brooklyn, NY

UnionDocs is thrilled to team up with Third Horizon and The Luminal Theater for the latest edition of the Caribbean Film Series!

This biannual celebration of bold, original cinema is back with a weekend of incredible films from some of the most exciting Caribbean filmmakers today. This winter’s lineup brings powerful stories from across the region and the diaspora—including work by local creators. We’re thrilled to present Malaury Eloi Paisley’s stunning debut L’homme-vertige: Tales of a City, a haunting portrait of a disappearing Guadeloupean community.

We can’t wait to share this and more incredible films with you, spark conversations, and celebrate the depth and creativity of Caribbean cinema. Don’t miss it!

In the Chanzy neighbourhood of Pointe-à-Pitre, the economic capital of Guadeloupe, bulldozers are pulling down condemned residential blocks. L’homme-vertige: Tales of a City, the debut feature film by Guadeloupean artist Malaury Eloi Paisley, follows wanderers through the city’s empty streets. In her empathetic conversations and relationships with a former freedom fighter, a drug addict, a fish scaler, and others, the director fashions a moving portrait of an endangered community and its survivors.

Malaury Eloi Paisley is a filmmaker and visual artist. She lives and works in Guadeloupe. She studied art history and museology at the Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III, and fine arts at UQAM in Montreal. She returned to Guadeloupe in 2016 to take a course in documentary filmmaking at the Ateliers Varan.