Friday, September 19th Schedule I 12: 15 PM Screening of Malaury Eloi Paisley's L’ homme-vertige
Fri, Sep 19
|Providence
12:15 PM Screening of Malaury Eloi Paisley's L’ homme-vertige
Time & Location
Sep 19, 2025, 12:15 PM – 2:15 PM
Providence, 20 N Main St, Providence, RI 02903, USA
About the event
In partnership with the RISD Library, We are thrilled to present the Screening of Malaury Eloi Paisley's L’ homme-vertige : Tales of a City at the beautiful RISD Museum Auditorium located inside the Museum at 20 North Main Street Providence, RI.
About the Film:
In the Chanzy neighbourhood of Pointe-à-Pitre, the economic capital of the Guadeloupe archipelago, bulldozers from demolition firm Avenir Déconstruction are pulling down residential blocks consigned to history. On nightly patrols L'homme-vertige : Tales of a City follows the city’s wanderers through the empty streets. These are dizzying circumstances. They all carry the wounds of this city within them and are now seers. Circulating throughout the internal and external spaces, both endangered, are the director’s empathetic conversations and relationships – with the lung-diseased former freedom fighter Ti Chal, with the crack addict Priscilla, with the wild, angry and then calmer Eddie, with the fish scaler Karpèch. Even…