A docufiction film based on the Tumba Francesa La Caridad de Oriente. The Tumba Francesa Societies emerged from the waves of slave migrations during the Haitian Revolution and became integral constituents of Cuban culture. Through the Society’s youngest member, Flavio, we meet his grandmother Andrea and mother Queli, two charismatic knowledge keepers of their rich cultural traditions. Α film full of music composed and produced by Cuban based DJ Jigüe, in collaboration with the Tumba Francesa members!
Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier
Alexandrine is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Victoria, located on the West Coast of Canada, on the territory of the lək̓ʷəŋən, the Songhees, Esquimalt and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day. Completed her PhD in Social Anthropology with Visual Media at the University of Manchester and at the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology in 2008. She conducts fieldwork in Cuba since the year 2000 on issues of music, youth, and cultural policies. As part of her second postdoctoral fellowship at York University, Université Laval and the CÉLAT, she explores the idea of Afro-Cuban audio-visual representation among young male and female rappers from Santiago de Cuba. She is the author of Aerial Imagination in Cuba: Stories from Above the Rooftop in Cuba (2020).
DJ Jigüe
Sent from an alternate future to connect different dimensions, DJ Jigüe combines ancestral rhythms with the live presence of Afro-Cuban drums, Afro-futuristic and electronic waves. DJ Jigüe is the creator behind Guámpara Music, the first independent urban music label in Cuba, which allowed him to experiment with new sounds. He has produced several albums, including Havana Cultura and Súbelo Cuba produced in conjunction with Gilles Peterson. He is currently one of the most well-known DJs within the electronic scene in Cuba, developing his own aesthetic called Tropical Afrofuturism.