"It is said that salt can stay in the sea for two hundred and sixty million years."
Rehearsal For Encountering looks into the moment of intercultural contact between the Asian indentured laborers and the enslaved people from Africa, who were coerced or tricked into laboring in plantations in the Caribbean in the 19th century. The film is structured with footage taken during a research trip to Cuba, accompanied by interwoven theoretical writings.
Fred Ho
Self
Salim Washington
Self
Yingheng Huang
Narrator
Audrey Jaramillo
Narrator
Rehearsal For Encountering looks into the moment of intercultural contact between the Asian indentured laborers and the enslaved people from Africa, who were coerced or tricked into laboring in plantations in the Caribbean in the 19th century. The film is structured with footage taken during a research trip to Cuba, accompanied by interwoven theoretical writings.
An escaped slave travels north and has chance encounters with Frederick Douglass and John Brown. Based on the life story of Shields Green.
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