This mini-retrospective is both a celebration of a remarkable filmmaker, a complement to two of The Power Plant’s Winter 2019 exhibitions, and represents co-presentations of five films with the Art Gallery of Ontario, Hot Docs, and TIFF.
In this BBC commissioned film, Haile Gerima and Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski travel around Ethiopia talking to people about their political and psychic recovery of the Ethiopian people after the atrocities and political repression, or "red terror," of the military junta of Mengistu Haile Mariam. What are citizens’ current situations, and what do they feel needs to be done for liberty and prosperity?
Haile Gerima is an independent filmmaker and professor of film at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Born and raised in Ethiopia, Gerima emigrated to the United States in 1967. Following in the footsteps of his father, a dramatist and playwright, Gerima studied acting in Chicago before entering the School of Theater, Film and Television at University of California, Los Angeles where his exposure to Latin American films inspired him to mine his own cultural legacy. He has pursued a rich career as an internationally-recognised maker, producer and distributer of films focused especially on African and African-American themes.
Nadine Valcin, producer, will introduce the film and speak about Imperfect Journey in the context of Gerima’s career.
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