How can film help us see histories that have long been hidden — from the forced labour on indigo plantations in Haiti to the influence of Christian missions on fashion in Namibia and Jamaica? Beyond documenting the past, film can challenge dominant narratives, unearth silenced voices, and spark new ways of thinking about heritage, memory, and Afro-Indigenous knowledge.
Film screening and public talk marking the closure of the BCDSS exhibition Enmeshed and Entwined: Fabrics of Dependency
We warmly invite you to attend the film screening and public round table with film directors Dr. Joseph S. Jean, Yohannes Mekonnen, as well as curators Dr. Beatrix Hoffmann-Ihde and Jun.-Prof. Dr. Julia Binter.
We will be screening two films by Haitian archaeologist Sony Jean and the Global Heritage Lab’s Visual Anthropology Fellow Yohannes Mulat Mekonnen.
The screenings will be followed by a conversation with curators Beatrix Hoffmann-Ihde (BCDSS) and Julia Binter (Global Heritage Lab), exploring how film can document, unmake, and reimagine the legacies of power and dependency.
Films: Dressing Resistance, 2025, 12 mins; The koutodigo: What a Tool Tells Us About Haitian Colonial History and Asymmetrical Dependency, 2024, 9 mins.
The audience is warmly invited to join the discussion and share drinks at the finissage reception!
Program:
5-7 pm: Film Screening and Public Talk
7 pm: Reception / Finissage of the “Enmeshed and Entwined – Fabrics of Dependency” exhibition
The Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS) and the Bonn Centre for Digital Humanities (BCDH) warmly thank the Global Heritage Lab (GHL) for hosting the exhibition!