May 9 – 12, 2024 | Pérez Art Museum Miami & Koubek Center | Miami, FL ✦
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Coconut details the director’s trip to his mother’s homeland of Jamaica to bury his grandmother, who was also his caretaker. Made from original Super 8mm footage filmed in Jamaica, as well as found footage, Coconut is a public declaration of love for Gladys Austin.
This film screens as part of the shorts program Sometimes I Imagine You A Little Lonely.
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Jard Lerebours is a community-oriented Jamaican-Haitian filmmaker, writer, and curator who creates exploratory pieces in service of venerating his ancestors and putting image to theory. He is an active member of the Meerkat Media Artist Collective. Jard’s practice straddles the worlds of cinema and video art, and his work has been showcased at various international film festivals.
