THE TERROR AND THE TIME (GY 1979. D: Victor Jara Collective)

Lecture & Film “Black Atlantic Cinema”

Lecture: Iyabo Kwayana (New Hampshire)

Lecture: Terror and the Time: A Reflection on Poetic Resistance
This talk will explore the poetry of Martin Carter as a powerful source of anti-colonial resistance, particularly within the context of Guyanese social and cultural movements. As the child of Eusi Kwayana, one of the interviewees in the film and one of the dear friends to the late Martin Carter, I witnessed Carter’s influence extends beyond words, inspiring a poetic resistance that fueled the liberatory imaginaries of the filmmakers of Terror and the Time and those contemporaries engaged in resistance movements.
Iyabo Kwayana is an an educator and independent filmmaker whose film career spans from serving as director of photography for fiction films, to director or (co)cinematographer for award-winning documentaries, to directing and editing archival experimental films that leverage minstrel imagery to NASA footage to articulate personal trauma and catharsis.

Film: THE TERROR AND THE TIME (GY 1979. R: Victor Jara Collective)
THE TERROR AND THE TIME by the Victor Jara Collective, accompanied by the poetry of Martin Carter, examines British colonialism in Guyana by focusing on three historical moments. “The titular terror is British colonialism in Guyana; the time is 1953, the year of the first elections under a provisional democratic constitution.” (Courtisane, Ghent) “As the child of Eusi Kwayana, one of the interviewees in the film and a good friend of the late Martin Carter, I witnessed how Carter’s influence went beyond words to inspire a poetic resistance that fueled the liberating imagination of the filmmakers of THE TERROR AND THE TIME and their contemporaries engaged in resistance movements.” (Iyabo Kwayana)

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