Sylvaine Dampierre

Sylvaine Dampierre

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Sylvaine Dampierre is a French documentary filmmaker of Guadeloupean descent

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An Enclosure 1999

We discover a modest, almost derisory garden, located in the heart of the women's prison in Rennes, Brittany, France.
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The Island N/A

We follow Fernand, a former worker at Renault, in his allotment in the heart of the most famous industrial wasteland on the Île Saint-Germain, an island located in the Seine, in Issy-les-Moulineaux in the Hauts-de-Seine near Paris, France.
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Words of Negroes 2021

On Guadeloupe, an archipelago in the Caribbean, the past speaks up. Sylvaine Dampierre has the workers of an old sugar refinery read passages from the transcripts of an 1842 court case, while the machines roar and groan in the background. The testimonies of the slaves from back then in the rusty halls of today give rise to a polyphony both explosive and poetic in nature.