Alain Martin, The Forgotten Occupation: Jim Crow Goes to Haiti, 2023. Film still. Courtesy of the artist.
Friday 11 September – Cinemateket Trondheim
18:00–19:30: Film screening of The Forgotten Occupation (2023) by Alain Martin
19:45–20:30: Discussion/Q&A following the screening, moderated by Jelsen, with director Alain Martin joining remotely via Zoom.
Here is the link to reserve tickets for the film screening and Q+A: https://cinematekettrondheim.ticketco.events/no/nb/e/the_forgotten_occupation__qa
About The Forgotten Occupation (2023) by Alain Martin: Brunel Martin, the filmmaker's grandfather, came of age during Haiti's brutal occupation by US Marines, yet became a fierce advocate for the country that had destroyed it. A decade after Brunel's death, Martin writes him a letter trying to reconcile the contradictions. Hosted at Cinemateket Trondheim, the screening is followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker and artist Jelsen Lee Innocent.
Saturday 12 September – Kunsthall Trondheim
13:00–15:00: A conversation between writer and designer Alice Grandoit-Šutka, co-founder of Deem Journal and cultural anthropologist Dubie Toa-Kwapong, and artist Jelsen Lee Innocent.
The discussion explores debts, inheritance, and reparations alongside colonial legacies, memory, and Black futures, in dialogue with Martin's film and Jelsen Lee Innocent's exhibition The World, The Flesh and The Devil, on view at Kunsthall Trondheim until September 27, 2026
In addition to the conversation Raul Andres Galvan Jean, will present a video montage of Haitian music.
Reserve a spot for conversation here: https://kunsthall-trondheim.hoopla.no/event/360742133
Tendai Angela Rokkness is the producer for Against Benevolent Hands, which is co-organized with Black History Month Norway. Supported by Kulturdirektoratet, Kulturrådet, Olso Kommune, Cinemteket Trondhiem.