Another building
another building is a series of films that take place in and around historic buildings and sites connected to the Dutch Colonial History. As an artistic response to a place, another building aims to create curiosity in a location and history by contrasting contemporary art (dance, music, digital film) with the site and its culture.
Each story stands alone, but together, the films create an alternative overview of little known Dutch History while revealing global connections.
“these films combine all that i am interested in—history, anthropology, dance, and architecture.”
— Gabri Christa, The Scholar & Feminist Online
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QUARANTINE
An older man looks at his younger self explore an old Quarantine Building for enslaved Africans.
SAVONETA
A couple visits a plantation house and is overcome with images and flashbacks from the past.
KASITA
When a young girl Luna, can’t keep the dog she rescued, she knows just what to do. Together with her cousin Sol, she sets off to house him in the empty slave huts, but things don’t go as planned.
KANKANTRI
In “KANKANTRI (The Silk Cotton Tree),” a woman is transported to the parallel universe of all her different ancestors where she dances and takes part in rituals until she feels whole.
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