Friday, September 19th Schedule I 6: 15 PM Screening of Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich’s The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire
Fri, Sep 19
|Providence
5:30 PM Reception and Food 6:30 PM Screening of Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich’s The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire QA with Filmmaker and Melaine King, PhD immediately after screening
Time & Location
Sep 19, 2025, 5:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Providence, 155 Angell St, Providence, RI 02906, USA
About the event
We are thrilled to announce our evening screening is Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich’s The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire film and the Filmmaker will be attending the screening for QA after the screening. Please join us to celebrate this incredible work that pay tribute to a trailblazer women Suzanne Césaire.
About the film:
The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire
a film by Madeleine Hunt Ehrlich2024, 75 minutes
Synopsis
An actress and new mother (played by Zita Hanrot) is haunted by voices as she embarks on inhabiting the role of surrealist writer Suzanne Roussi-Césaire. In the sleepy palm groves of the tropics, a small group of filmmakers and actors confront the history of writer Suzanne Césaire in her youth and then stage scenes from her life, troubling the “paradise” of historical memory. Moving between narrative filmmaking and abstraction - a night at a 1940s cafe, and the garden where a film’s cast and crew discuss…