As part of this year's Afrika Eye Film Festival, we are continuing our celebration of African culture through cinema with a screening of Stone Street at the Arts House Café on Stokes Croft, Bristol on Wed 6 November, 7.30. Entry is by donation.
At 22 Stone Street in Port of Spain, Trinidad, stands a house, home to the Cherrie family for over 60 years. This absorbing film is an autobiographical portrait of the Cherrie family and its branches in the US, UK and Canada. Mixing home movie footage, photographs, musical recordings and interviews with a lyrical first-person narration, Stone Street moves beyond a simple record of family life to become a layered exploration of identity, history, race, place and belonging.
Elspeth kydd’s auto-ethnographic documentary examines the Trinidadian diaspora through the lens of her family home in the eponymous Stone Street, Port of Spain. The film offers a moving autobiographic portrait of the Cherrie family and its branches in the US, UK and Canada, mixing home-movie Super 8 footage, photographs, musical recordings and interviews with a lyrical first-person narration. This absorbing film questions the very notion of ‘home’, moving beyond a simple record of family life to become a layered exploration of identity, history, race, representation, place and belonging. Stone Street premiered at Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival, 2012 where it won the award for Cultural Diversity. We are honoured to screen the film here in memory of Elspeth who died prematurely, shortly after completing Stone Street, in April 2013.
A rare opportunity to see this moving and important film.
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