BLACK BULLETS

Jeannette Ehlers, Denmark, digital, 5 min, 2012

An homage to the Haitian revolution of 1791 when enslaved Africans rebelled against colonial rule. The slavery practiced by the French colonial administration is known as one of the cruellest periods of forced labour. The Haitian revolution set the scene for Haiti’s independence in 1804. In the video piece, walking human figures and their reflections are depicted against the sky on a mountain-top fort, which was built by the first Black Haitian monarch, Henri Christophe, at the start of the 19th century to defend independent Haiti against the French.—Espoo Museum of Modern Art

Jeannette Ehlers (1973). Works in photography, video, installation, sculpture, and performance; solo exhibitions at MOCAD, Moderna Museet (Stockholm), and Kunsthal Charlottenborg; screenings at venues including Festival Caribeén de l’Image and Brookyln Museum; Black Bullets permanently installed at Stockholm School of Economics. Creator (with La Vaughn Belle) of I Am Queen Mary (2018), the first public statue of a Black woman in Denmark. Lives in Copenhagen, Denmark

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Kevin Jerome Everson, USA, digital, 7 min, 2023

Kevin Jerome Everson (1965). 200+ films since 1997; extensive screenings at major festivals worldwide; retrospectives at Centre Pompidou (2019), Harvard Film Archive (2018), Tate Modern (2017), Media City Film Festival, and Whitney Museum of American Art (2011). Herb Alpert Award (2012), Heinz Award in the Arts and Humanities (2019), Berlin Prize (2020). MCFF has screened more than 50 films by Everson since 2009. MCFF Mobile Frames Filmmakerin-Residence (2014). Lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.