{"id":5684,"date":"2024-06-12T18:58:15","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T18:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/?post_type=mec-events&#038;p=5684"},"modified":"2024-06-12T18:58:15","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T18:58:15","slug":"documentary-screening-with-victoria-campbell-monsieur-le-president","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/events\/documentary-screening-with-victoria-campbell-monsieur-le-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Documentary Screening with Victoria Campbell: Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Wednesday, July 10, at 3:30pm, at the West Tisbury Library, join filmmaker Victoria Campbell for a screening of her documentary, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Free and open to the public.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">About the film:<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAmerican filmmaker Victoria Campbell enters Haiti just days after the 2010 Haitian earthquake, with a camera and a small valise of medical supplies. There she meets Gaston, a beloved voodoo priest who, with nothing but hustle and hope, revives a defunct clinic and staffs it with a doctor and nurses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gaston is celebrated in the neighborhood, but then the story takes a sinister turn.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No one is a hero. Nothing is what it seems.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Victoria Campbell<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is an award-winning documentary filmmaker. Her work has screened at the Museum of Modern Art, Ann Arbor Film Festival, DOC NYC, Toronto International Women Film Festival, School of Visual Arts Lecture Series, and Iceland Experimental Film Festival. Much of her film work is considered visual essay and hybrid-diary. Victoria is interested in documenting what\u2019s around her, making use of her own life and experiences. Some of her editing work has appeared on PBS. She currently teaches English and Social Studies at the West Tisbury School on Martha\u2019s Vineyard.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, July 10, at 3:30pm, at the West Tisbury Library, join filmmaker Victoria Campbell for a screening of her documentary, Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident. Free and open to the public. About the film: \u201cAmerican filmmaker Victoria Campbell enters Haiti just days after the 2010 Haitian earthquake, with a camera and a small valise of medical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5685,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[],"class_list":["post-5684","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/5684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mec-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5684"},{"taxonomy":"mec_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_category?post=5684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}