Lethière, The Oath of the Ancestors is a new film by French activist, writer, and filmmaker Claude Ribbe. Ribbe’s work focuses on the history of colonialism in the Caribbean. In this documentary, he tells the complex and compelling story of Guillaume Lethière’s Oath of the Ancestors, one of Haiti’s most important paintings. Lethière, The Oath of the Ancestors becomes a window not just into the historical moment it commemorates, but the history that comes afterward. (Run time: 50 minutes)

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Image: Lethière, The Oath of the Ancestors, Claude Ribbe, 2024