Celebrated Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck will be honored at the 56th Visions du Réel festival in Switzerland this April, featuring a retrospective of his four-decade career and the Swiss premiere of his latest work, the South African-focused documentary “Ernest Cole: Lost and Found.”
From his early explorations of Haiti’s political traumas to his investigations of African resistance and liberation, Peck has carved out a unique space in cinema where he often interweaves his personal history with unflinching examinations of global power structures.
In a new deep dive, I explore how Peck’s “transnational vision”—shaped by his own journey from Haiti to the Congo and beyond—has produced some of contemporary cinema’s most provocative explorations of colonialism’s lasting impact, with a particular focus on what I consider his masterwork, “Exterminate All the Brutes” (2021).
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