Vassar Haiti Project

This past Thursday we held a film screening in collaboration with a Vassar alum ’11, Joseph Redwood-Martinez. Here are some details about what happened!

One day, everything will be free is a feature-length documentary about permaculture, international aid, and Sadhana Forest Haiti––an unlikely reforestation community organized around an alternative economy in an area of Haiti devastated by erosion and environmental degradation.

This video explores the challenges, motivations, and broader implications of an ecological restoration project run by a utopian community located in one of the most contested and politically complicated terrains in the world––in an area referred to locally as “the wasteland.”

About the filmmaker:

Joseph Redwood-Martinez is an artist, writer, and filmmaker from the United States. His writing has appeared in Frieze, Modern Painters, andContemporary Art + Visual Culture Broadsheet, and he is a contributing editor to Ment. A book of his recent writing, event statements, was published in April 2011 by Publication Studio. A forthcoming book titled neo-provincialism will be released in 2014.

He has shown work and curated programs in Sweden, Germany, Turkey, the UK, and the United States. In 2011, he was a curatorial fellow at SALT in Istanbul. With the support of the Graham Foundation, he is currently developing a research project into perpetual building and deliberate articulations of incompleteness in the built landscape. One day, everything will be free is his first film. Promises of Urban Agriculture, his second feature-length documentary, forthcoming in 2014, looks critically at the implications of urban agriculture in various cities around the world.