Kite Zo A (Leave the Bones)

December 13th screening with filmmaker Kaveh Nabatian in attendance

In 1791, Dutty Boukman presided over a Vodou ritual in Bois-Caïman that led to the creation of the first Black republic in Haiti. Since then, rituals of transformation and artistic expression have been at the core of a thriving culture, as the country faces oppression, poverty, and natural disasters. Kite Zo A (Leave the Bones) is a sensorial film about rituals in Haiti, both ancient and modern, made in collaboration with poets, dancers, musicians, fishermen, daredevil rollerbladers and Vodou priests, and set to poetry by Haitian author Wood-Jerry Gabriel.