Atis-Rezistans - The Sculptors of Grand Rue

Atis-Rezistans - The Sculptors of Grand Rue - Plot Summary

Atis-Rezistans - The Sculptors of Grand Rue is a documentary film by Leah Gordon

The Grand Rue Sculptors are a community of artists living in a downtown slum neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

This is the newest art community to have emerged in the last ten years. They have produced art that reflects a heightened, Gibsonesque, Lo-Sci-Fi, dystopian view of their society, culture and religion, and have dragged Haitian art into the 21st century.

Jean Hérard Céleur, André Eugène and Guyodo are at the core of the movement, which contains seven or eight other younger artists, all producing powerful sculptural works.

Their work has opened entirely new vistas into the creative possibilities of the Vodou-inspired arts of Haiti.

Their muscular sculptural collages of engine manifolds, computer entrails, TV sets, medical debris, sk ulls and discarded lumber transforms the detritus of a failing economy into deranged, post-apocalyptic totems.

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