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reXistence

Des décennies d’images d’archives dévoilent la persistance de la violence systémique au Canada. En ravivant cette mémoire occultée, reXistence éveille nos consciences et alimente les luttes d’aujourd’hui.
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Plongée sensorielle dans l’histoire étouffée des communautés afrodescendantes au Canada, reXistence ravive des fragments de mémoire collective effacés. Ce portrait historique tissé exclusivement d’archives bouscule par sa poésie visuelle brute, qui rend hommage à la force inaltérable de celles et ceux qui ont résisté. Face au silence institutionnel, le film s’érige en cri politique et met en question notre rapport à la justice. Il nous oblige à voir… et à ne plus détourner le regard. Ce n’est pas du passé. C’est maintenant.

 This work contains scenes of violence. Viewer discretion is advised.
Cultural Diversity and Multiculturalism Law and Crime Social Issues All subjects
Communautés noires du Canada Courts métrages documentaires All channels
  • script
    Will Prosper
  • director
    Will Prosper
  • producer
    Pierre-Mathieu Fortin
  • editing
    Olivier Guillemette
  • original music
    Jenny Salgado
  • sound design
    Jenny Salgado
  • voice
    Jenny Salgado
  • research
    Anne Castelain
  • None
    Anne Castelain
    Olivier Duval Laberge
    Cynthia Ouellet
    Brenda Nixon
    Joëlle Lapointe
    Chinda Phommarinh
  • additional research
    Amélie Cusson
    Laurent K. Blais
  • additional shooting
    Stefan Verna
  • drone
    Drone Box
  • technical support - editing
    Pierre Dupont
    Marie-Josée Gourde
    Albert Kurian
    Patrick Trahan
  • translation
    Trans & Sub Coop
  • subtitling
    Trans & Sub Coop
  • online editing
    Yannick Carrier
  • music
    André Courcy
    Martin Courcy
  • assistant sound design
    David "Saysum" Amiot
    Daniel Toussaint
  • sound mixer
    Geoffrey Mitchell
  • administrator
    Sia Koukoulas
  • production coordinator
    Alexandra Bourque
  • studio coordinator
    Stéphanie Lazure
    Gabrielle Dupont
  • technical coordinator
    Julien Archambault
    Luc Binette
    Daniel Claveau
  • delegate producer
    Mélanie Lasnier
  • executive producer
    Nathalie Cloutier
reXistence
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