double feature with Wildwood, NJ at the rockaway film festival.

beautifully shot documentary highlighting the exploitation of young adults from other countries who come here (specifically to Dells, Wisconsin) to work for pennnnnnnies during the summer months omgggg the US is trash garbage!! 

this had a lot of long silent shots that were, I think, skillfully composed and inserted. the bit with the story of the pied piper was interesting and eerie, though a little on the nose. 

the director…

this film is beautiful, experimental, and curious with surrealist elements and a non-linear narrative. not meant to be a complete encapsulation of Suzanne Césaire’s life or politics but a brief portrait using her essays written from 1941-1945 (after which she did mot publish any of her writing) as an entry point to explore her relationship to surrealism, the war, Martinique, the land/the forest, and nature’s role more broadly in the lives of caribbean people and our effects on it. there’s…