film

Balancing Art and Life

Balancing Art and Life

Finding balance has been an important topic for me as I have previously found myself caught in a spiral of procrastination due to my tendencies towards perfectionism, and admittedly still occasionally do.

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Zanj Hegal La: Colonialism, Filmmaking, and Attempts at Accountability

Zanj Hegal La: Colonialism, Filmmaking, and Attempts at Accountability

Coated with imagery of the local Haitian practices of Vodou and Kanaval, this reflexive narrative was created through direct collaboration between Casanova and his film students from the Ciné Institute of Jacme. The film simultaneously questions the ethics of its ethnographic filmmaking, while also exploring the aftermath of colonialism in Haiti.

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Unfair Working Conditions on Film Sets

Unfair Working Conditions on Film Sets

The element that really irked me about this set was that, aside from myself, almost all the background actors were literal highschool students. They were children. They didn’t know they could say no to staying late, or stand up against anything else that wasn’t okay on that set. They were learning that this is the norm on film sets -- that unfair working conditions is the standards and that you shouldn’t say anything against it.

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