Marie-Josèphe Angélique was a black slave in New France (Montreal, Canada, 1734), who was tortured, hanged and burned down to ashes, guilty of setting a fire, burning down much of what is now known as Old Montreal. This experimental ...See moreMarie-Josèphe Angélique was a black slave in New France (Montreal, Canada, 1734), who was tortured, hanged and burned down to ashes, guilty of setting a fire, burning down much of what is now known as Old Montreal. This experimental documentary uses the hanging of the Black slave Marie-Angélique, employing found footage as mode of investigation for emergent metaphors of gender and race, examining the dynamics between Blackness and racialized political history.
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