Gilkes's Sargasso! in Bermuda

An alert from Bermuda:

Dr. Michael Gilkes Public Reading

* Date: 20 March 2010
* Time: 5:30 p.m. reception, 6 p.m. start
* Location: Bermuda National Gallery

Playwright, filmmaker, director and scholar Dr. Michael Gilkes will give a public reading of his work. He will also screen clips of his film based on Jean Rhys- "Wide Sargasso Sea", filmed entirely on location in Dominica.

Sargasso! A Caribbean Love Story. (Barbados, 1990)
Directed by Michael Gilkes.
Dominican writer Jean Rhys's celebrated novel, Wide Sargasso Sea, published in 1966, tells the story of the mad creole heiress in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. A Caribbean Love Story is a contemporary response to this classic novel through the medium of film. While it captures the spirit of the original modernist text, the visual realization creates new meanings of its own. In particular: the island setting is presented as indivisible from drama, providing an antidote to the Hollywood fantasy of the Caribbean as an exotic island paradise. A University of the West Indies pilot project, Sargasso! was filmed in Dominica with an all Caribbean cast and crew. The director, Guayanese dramatist and respected academic, Michael Gilkes, pays tribute to Jean Rhys in a voice-over introduction to the film.

Categories: Movies-DVD-TV, Wide Sargasso Sea