In the Chanzy neighbourhood of Pointe-à-Pitre, the economic capital of Guadeloupe, bulldozers are pulling down residential blocks. L’homme-vertige: Tales of a City follows the city’s wanderers through the empty streets. They all carry the wounds of this city within them, and are now seers. Circulating throughout the internal and external spaces, both endangered, are the director’s empathetic conversations and relationships—with the lung-diseased former freedom fighter Ti Chal, with the crack addict Priscilla, with the angry and then calmer Eddie, with the fish scaler Kanpèch. Eric resists the inevitable dilapidation with his view of the city, his recitation of texts by Joël Beuze and Amílcar Cabral. Malaury Eloi Paisley: “And I ask myself why I feel the need to wander the streets of Pointe-à-Pitre.”
A Q+A with Malaury Eloi Paisley will follow the screening.
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Malaury Eloi Paisley is a filmmaker and visual artist who works from her native island of Guadeloupe. She studied art history and museum studies before participating in the Ateliers Varan workshops in Guadeloupe in 2016, and an international workshop at EICTV in Cuba on the aesthetics of documentary film. She embarked on a long-term project exploring the city of Pointe-à-Pitre, L’homme-vertige: Tales of a City, between 2017 and 2023. It is her first feature film.
