Child-Play

Film Maker
Mohabeer, Michelle
Year
1997
Country
Canada
Language
Format
16mm
Length
14
Genre
experimental, narrative
Category
Race + Ethnicity, Work about Women, Work by Women

Set in an imaginary nameless space that closely resembles the Caribbean, “Child-Play” is an allegorical Dream Tale paralleling the “innocence” of childhood and the elder phases of existence. Ateesha Mansara, a woman in her late sixties, has lived a life colonized by her own fears about the threat of usurpation of her identity by the Dutchman Spirit of a child molester, whom she had previously met when she was a girl of ten. The spirit of Georgie De Root revisits Ateesha fifty years later in a final attempt to lay “claim” to her soul. Or does he? Available on DVD on the compilation “Artist Spotlight Series: Michelle Mohabeer.”

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