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YAO
RAMESAR, Trinidad
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One of the new generation of young
Caribbean directors, Ramesar also trained at Howard in Washington
and now lectures in television and film at the University of the
West Indies, St Augustine. He has won numerous awards, including the
Paul Robeson Award for Best Film and Best Editing (1990), and for
Best Cinematography (1991) in the US; and the Best Television
Series, Best Editing and Best Supporting Video awards in Trinidad in
1997. Ramesar is also a commentator and film theorist, whose ideas
have been published both in the Caribbean and elsewhere.
For the Festival,
Ramesar will be showing a series of short experimental films made
over the last five years, in which he explores ‘the spiritual
essence of Trinidad and Tobago’s diverse culture’. This sequence
includes Celebration,
a visual accompaniment to Derek Walcott's well-known poem, Saddhu of
Couva, and
b.c (before columbus), and constitutes an unparalleled archive
of sensitively observed and beautifully shot visual narratives of
Trinidadian culture. Topics include steel pan, the Hindu River
Festival, the Orisha Festival, masquerade traditions, parang,
cricket and aspects of different religions. Of Jamaican and
Trinidadian heritage, he describes his own stunning, hypnotic
aesthetic as “Caribbeing.”
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