In 2045, in the remains of an urban life devastated by pollution, power outages and pandemics, a young woman is isolated in a Montreal apartment, with her cat Nelson, a handful of ghosts and a box as her only company. archives left by her grandmother, who arrived from Haiti in Quebec in the 1960s, and which she must deposit in a genealogical platform managed by artificial intelligence. As she works to complete her master’s degree – a research project on the constitution and status of archives of black communities – she notes the importance of the materiality of bodies and memories in the legacy of a family and collective memory. In this first hybrid story, Léa Murat-Ingles brings together notes, memories, quotes and documents to create a complex temporality in which the present and the future inform each other to demonstrate all the power and fragility of the personal archive in the radical affirmation of a Haitian identity and in the fight against erasure.
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