The Enigma of Harold Sonny Ladoo
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- Caribbean Film Series and
- BAM Film 2024
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In 1972 Trinidadian author Harold Sonny Ladoo published his first novel, No Pain Like This Body, a poetic yet devastating depiction of life during Indian indentureship in Trinidad, now-recognized as a classic of Caribbean literature. Ladoo’s second novel, Yesterdays, one of the queerest works of Caribbean fiction, was published in 1974—the same year his battered body was found by a roadside in Trinidad; he was 28. In this new documentary, which has its New York premiere at BAM, director Richard Fung draws on a 20-year-old video archive of interviews with Ladoo’s family, friends, and literary contemporaries in an attempt to piece together the puzzle of his complex life.
Join us following the screening for a Q&A with director Richard Fung!
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