Living memories

Synopsis

Living Memories is a documentary film that traces the history of the director’s neighborhood and native country, Haiti, through a personal and engaged perspective. Brick by brick, through encounters and wanderings throughout Port-au-Prince’s neighborhoods, archival photos, graffiti, and animations, the filmmaker introduces us to architect Léon Mathon and the residential architecture of the early 20th century. Over the ruins of her family home, Dominique, the director's mother, an architect like her father and grandfather before her, searches through her memories and significant places for traces of the past and the history of her country. Many of her landmarks are no longer there. From this tragedy arises a quest — a need to reconnect memory and history to understand the present better. The filmmaker follows her mother during her journey, capturing her reflections and conversations and documenting them to bring memories back to life.

Main Cast

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Nitsé Mathelier
	First Assistant Director	Laura Kamugisha
Writing	Screenplay	Nitsé Mathelier
Production	Producer	Daniela Mujica
	Associate Producer	Eric Idriss Kanago
Camera	Director of Photography	Vanessa Abadhir
Sound	Sound	Andrés Solis
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