Kannan Arunasalam
Tao DuFour
Natalie Melas
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WE LOVE WE SELF UP HERE
2019 - 2021
We Love We Self Up Here is a documentary film that explores narratives of lived experiences of urban, agricultural, and industrial landscapes tied to colonial and postcolonial legacies of sugar production and hydrocarbon extraction in Trinidad & Tobago.
Completed in 2021, the film captures complex histories of labor and migration through the intimate stories of a few persons. The spaces of narration—domestic, neighborhood, and landscape—emerge as themselves “characters,” architectural and landscape witnesses to long processes of social and environmental change.
A film screening took place on November 12, 2021 in the Milstein Hall Auditorium which included an introduction by Tao DuFour and Natalie Melas, a discussion panel with Kannan Arunasalam, Viranjini Munasinghe, and David Scott moderated by Jeremy Foster, and a Q&A with the filmmakers.
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