City on the Hill
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- Опубліковано 17 жов 2024
- CITY ON THE HILL
Winner of the Peoples’ Choice Award at the Trinidad and Tobago
Film Festival 2015.
A film on the Built and Cultural Heritage of East Port of Spain
Directed by Michael Mooleedhar and Patricia Mohammed
This film was commissioned by project ‘Leveraging Built and Cultural Heritage of East Port of Spain”. It focuses on the history and culture of the communities erected on the hillside slopes of Laventille and adjacent neighbourhood of Belmont. Due to the limited scope of the project, the film directors were unable to capture the rich history and heritage of the other communities that comprise the East Port of Spain area.
Through historical records and markings on the landscape, the film examines the craftsmanship of those whose labour was quarried to erect the early buildings of Port of Spain. It makes connections between a spiritual architecture and its influences on music, dance and artistic production now recognized among the primary signifiers of culture of the nation of Trinidad and Tobago.
The conventional narrator is replaced with the poetry and prose of Derek Walcott, and Wayne Brown read by Wendell Manwarren of Trinidad and Tobago’s 3 Canal performance group, thus absorbing the literary lens on this rich built and cultural heritage which we discover through testimonies of creativity and survival of its citizens young and old. The documentary works against the grain of how Laventille has been conventionally presented, unraveling the dominant image of violence, indolence and poverty with the creative traditions and symbols that future development should preserve.
Directors: Michael Mooleedhar and Patricia Mohammed
Cinematography: Emilio Wizzkydd
Associate Producer: Sharda Patasar
Editor: Michael Mooleedhar
Runtime: 47 mins
Funded by the Research and Development Impact Fund, The University of the West Indies, St Augustine, 2015.
EPOS Project Team
Dr Asad Mohammed, Dr. Perry Polar, Prof. Bridget Brereton, Rudlynn Roberts, Dr Bhesham Ramlal, Joseph Leung Che, Christian Jattan, Dexnell Peters, Sarika Mahabir, Prof. Patricia Mohammed, Michael Mooleedhar, Dr. Sharda Patasar
It filled my heart to see my City on the Hill truly and honestly represented. Much thanks.
Born in gonzales in 1940 but i live in Washington DC , I love this
Blessed to ma Culture from Ohio🇹🇹💯🙏
Love the subject. Love Green Days by the River too.
Very nice video. Thanks for sharing the beautiful island of Trinidad.
I saw Green Days by the River at the San Andrés Island Film Festival, Colombia.
I artist/sculptor Rudolph Rudy Mendoza, am very privileged be associated with family and friends, in this historical part of Trinidad and Tobago Republic. Wow! I had no idea Laventille was so pregnant with strong history of colonialism; and the strong watch tower of Thomas Picton, that watches over the whole city of Port of Spain. The hill is a very important historical landmark in the twin islands paradise.
love seeing these types of videos about TNT but for the life of me I will never understand how those that are channeling the spirit of shango but still have images of a white Jesus in their temple.
Because everything about Caribbean culture is a paradox . You see both ends of the spectrum in every aspect of our society and culture
Keeping them CONFUSED TO CONTROL😮
Very good documentary. Enjoyed
Perry are there are other artifacts from this project? Please share link to project docs.
Massive.
Three years later..........IT WOSERER......SO ALL DAH TALK WAS JUS USELESS TALK AND YUH KNO WHO MAKE MONEY FROM DE BLAH BLAH BLAH😮