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Visions du R\u00e9el was delighted to announce that the Guest of Honour for its 56th edition was renowned Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck. His participation in this edition of the Festival included a masterclass<\/a> and a retrospective<\/a> of his documentaries, along with a festival screening of his latest feature film Ernest Cole: Lost and Found<\/a><\/em><\/em> prior to its release in Swiss cinemas. The filmmaker behind I Am Not Your Negro<\/a><\/em><\/em>, nominated for an Oscar in 2017, looked back at a filmography populated by key figures, embodying the fight for emancipation and criticising the cultural domination of history\u2019s Eurocentric perspective. This tribute was made possible thanks to a collaboration between the Cin\u00e9math\u00e8que suisse<\/a> and the cinema department at ECAL<\/a> \u2013 University of Art and Design Lausanne.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Visions du R\u00e9el is delighted to announce that the Guest of Honour for its 56th edition will be renowned Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck. <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

An essay on Raoul Peck\u2019s work<\/a>, written by Emmanuel Chicon, is published in the Journal des invit\u00e9\u00b7e\u00b7s<\/a>.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Born in Haiti in 1953, and raised in Congo, New York, France and Germany, Raoul Peck is one of the most important filmmakers of the late 20th and early 21st century. Over the course of the last forty years, the filmmaker has anchored his complex body of work, which includes internationally acclaimed feature films and documentaries, in a deep political commitment. The genesis of his cinematographic tales stems in equal measure from his multicultural personal experience, his journey as an activist, and what he refers to as a “Marxist reading” of the global economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An indefatigable narrator of tales as seen from the viewpoint of those subject to domination, Raoul Peck has also questioned the links to capitalism in his own personal history, haunted by the ghosts of colonialism. His films examine omissions from official Western history, shining a light on aspects ignored by this account, often sketching a portrait of politicians or artists who have openly deconstructed it, such as Patrice Lumumba in Lumumba, La Mort du proph\u00e8te,<\/em> a feature film released in 1990, followed bythedocumentary Lumumba<\/em> (2000), James Baldwin in I Am Not Your Negro <\/em>(2016), and, most recently, Ernest Cole with Ernest Cole<\/em>: Lost and Found<\/em> (2024). Summoning the past to examine the present and rejecting any call to neutrality, Raoul Peck’s work is a reinvention of activist cinema, which he transforms using a cinematographic, poetic and highly subjective language, freely intermingling genres and formats. Exterminate All The Brutes, <\/em>a hybrid series in four parts (produced by HBO) \u2013 which will also be screened during the Festival \u2013 is a perfect example of this: it is a journey back in time, a radical re-examination of the history of European colonialism, from America to Africa, using personal, visual and literary narration to starkly revisit the darkest hours in human history right up to the present day. It won a Peabody Award in 2022, and was also the subject of a critical and literary essay.<\/p>\n\n\n

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