Fragmented

Feguenson Hermogène / Cuba / 2023 / World Premiere / 12 min.

synopsis

Ritual dances, incantations and fetishes in an associative sequence of mystical scenes reveal the roots of the Afro-Cuban minority in Bauta, Cuba, whose colonial past is guarded by a statue of a slave in chains. Tobacco smoke and magical ceremonies awaken the spirits of ancestors and invite them to fill the forgotten places of cultural memory of a young generation searching for their identity in a post-colonial era of political instability and religious syncretism.

“O my flesh, make me a man who always asks.” - Frantz Fanon

biography

Feguenson Hermogène (1988) was born in Haiti, where he studied sociology. He debuted with the documentary La déchirure (2016), and his film Cuando llegue la noche (2022) was successful at film festivals. He is currently working on Résurgence, a film about domestic violence rooted in Haitian society.

more about film

director:	Feguenson Hermogène
cast:	Ana M. Ibanez, Yordan R. Solorzano
producer:	Feguenson Hermogène
script:	Feguenson Hermogène
photography:	Well Amorim
editing:	Luiza Garcia
sound design:	Lyn Santos