Third Horizon & Perez Art Museum Miami Present:

A Season of Caribbean Cinema Part 2

Save the date! August 31, we’re back with Part 2 of our series with PAMM’s Caribbean Cultural Institute. Join us for a feature-length film and a short, followed by a conversation with one of the directors of the feature being screened. 

The Whisper of the Leaves, dir. Amir Aether Valen

The Whisper of the Leaves is a contemplative journey of harmony between different forms of life that coexist on the earth. This film is a meditation on the effect of time, movement of the human spirit, and passage to new forms of life, through the eyes, ears, and bodies of three elderly land workers living in a small community in the outskirts of Bauta, Cuba.

Stones Have Laws, dir. Tolin Alexander, Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan

Stones Have Laws (Dee Sitonu a Weti) is an immersive initiation into the life of a Maroon community in the former Dutch colony of Suriname. Combining stories of African ancestral traditions and escape from slavery with enacted contemporary rituals, the film explores how the community’s powerful ties to the land have become endangered as industries threaten to devastate the region through deforestation and mining.

Preceded by a special recorded introduction with the three filmmakers. Director Tolin Alexander will be present for a Q&A following the film.