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Director Malaury Eloi-Paisley on Her Debut Documentary ‘L’Homme Vertige,’ and the Unvarnished Reality of Caribbean Island Life
Filmmaking as Salvation: Director Malaury Eloi-Paisley on her debut documentary L’Homme Vertige, and showing the unvarnished reality of island life
It’s a simulation between the characters and the city.” Throughout the documentary, Paisley also focuses on the barren and demolished infrastructure on the island, no beach in sight till the end, to “demonstrate the isolation and confinement I felt growing up here. It was at this workshop, with encouragemnt from directing mentors Alice Diop (“Saint Omer”) and Sylvaine Dampierre (“Paroles de nègres”), that she began experimenting with ideas of Guadeloupe’s complex colonial present, loneliness and how humans, the built environment and nature interact in the visual form. “After my travels to New Zealand, New Caledonia and South Asia, I became even more pessimissitic about the impacts of colonialism that I had seen growing up and realized I couldn’t see the world from a lens where I didn’t see that sense of domination, especially in Guadeloupe, where the French control is very strong,” says Paisley.
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