Скачать или смотреть 2024 Dan David Prize Winner Cécile Fromont

In 1728, enslaved African Pedro José leaped on top of a sword planted tip up on the ground of a plaza in the Portuguese city of Porto without impaling himself. Eleven witnesses testified in 1689 that Antonio de Salinas, a free black fisherman from Cartagena in today’s Colombia, survived the blow of a cannonball to his chest. It was reported that bullets could not hurt 1760s Jamaican slave revolt leader Tacky, who caught them in his hand and hurled them back. Across the Atlantic, and across imperial lines, small bundles of carefully chosen ingredients lent the three men (and many others) empowerment and protection against bodily harm in the face of the violent circumstances of lives in the shadow of slavery. Widespread and inconspicuous, these extraordinarily efficient Afro-Atlantic bundles played a key role in defining power and the modes of its exercise in the long eighteenth century.

“I was always fascinated by the traces of use on objects, that you could see or you could touch with your fingers, events that had happened through these objects and that created a connection between you in this moment and the past,” says Cécile Fromont, a historian of the visual and material culture of Africa in an Atlantic perspective (1500 - 1800).

Read more about Cécile on the Dan David Prize website here: https://dandavidprize.org/winners/cec...

Produced by: Renana Levi and Moofa Production House (https://www.moofa.info/)

Directed by: Tammy Tish

Animation direction, research and creative: Daniella Koffler (Moofa Production House)

Motion designer: Guy Nativ

Filming: Aviv Shilo