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Haas, Elsie. (b. Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 1952; active Paris, France, 2009)
 

Bibliography and Exhibitions

MONOGRAPHS AND SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

FAYE, SAFI [Dir.].
ELSIE HAAS, femme peintre et cinéaste d'Haiti ( Elsie Haas, Haitian Woman Painter and Filmmaker).
1985.
Documentary film. 16 mm.; color; sd.

HAAS, ELSIE (Dir.).
Il était une fois le tap tap (There once was a Van) [Film].
2001.
A thirteen-minute history of the colorfully painted buses known as “tap taps” that circulate in Port-au-Prince. 16 mm.; color, sd.; 13 min.

HAAS, ELSIE (Dir.).
La Ronde des Vaudou (Circle of Voodoo) [Film].
1987.
Documentary about vaudou, describes the context of this religion and its interaction with other elements in Haitian society. (In French and Creole with English subtitles.) [Best Foreign Documentary, Black Film Festival of New York; selected for the Margaret Mead Festival.] 16 mm.; color, sd.. 52 min.

HAAS, ELSIE (Dir.).
Zatrap (The Trap).
1981.
Documentary short. Shot in Martinique in Creole and French. Haas's first film. 16 mm.; color, sd.

HAAS, ELSIE [Dir.].
Les Rois de la Route (The Kings of the Road) [Film].
1998.
colorfully painted buses known as "tap taps" that circulate in Port-au-Prince. Interviews with Tap Tap artists and artisans. The earlier expanded version of Haas's 13 min documentary. 16 mm.; color; sd.; 26 min.

NAJMAN, CHARLES (Dir.).
Les Illuminations de Madame Nerval [Film].
1999.
Documentary on Haitian vaudou presented by one of its priestesses. (In French and Creole with English subtitles.) 16 mm.; color, sd.; 55 min.

GENERAL BOOKS AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

BLONCOURT, GERALD and MARIE-JOSE NADAL-GARDERE.
La Peinture Haitienne / Haitian Arts.
Paris: Editions Nathan, 1986.
208 pp., over 100 color plates, photos of artists, chronols. on individual artists, general chronology, index of artists. Intro. by Gesner Armand; texts by Bloncourt, Dewitt Peters. In French and English. Important inclusion of the broader group of Haitian artists, including many hitherto little noted women painters and modernists, also some sculptors (in spite of the book's title.) Includes: Gesner Abelard, Willy Abelard, Jocelyn Agenor, Leon Agnant, Gerald Alexis, Gabriel Alix, Ralph Allen, Jean-Claude Almonor, Occide Almonor, Volvick Almonor, Fritzner Alphonse, Michel-Ange Altidor, Hector Ambroise, Jackson Ambroise, Xavier Amiama, Montas Antoine, Gesner Armand, Gesner Armand, Georges Auguste, Wilfrid (Frido) Austin, Forest Avril, Castera Bazile, Mario Benjamin, Rigaud Bénoit, Wilson Bigaud, Roland Blain, Fabolon Blaise, Serge Moléon Blaise, Saint-Louis Blaise, Sisson Blanchard, Smith Blanchard, Gerald Bloncourt, Noemie Clainville Bloncourt, Ludovic Booz, Maurice Borno, Jean-Baptiste Bottex, Seymour Etienne Bottex, Henry Robert Brésil, Murat Brierre (sculptor), Bourmond Byron, Robert St. Brice, Jean-Claude Castera, Marie-Helene Cauvin, Dieudonné Cédor, Ralph Chapoteau, Etienne Chavannes, Jacques-Richard Chéry, Préfete Duffaut, Raphael Denis, Villard Dennis, Rose-Marie Desruisseaux, André Dimanche (sculptor), Roland Dorcély, Guy A. Dorcin, Nicholas Dreux, Abner Dubic, Henri Dubreuil, Gervais Emmanuel Ducasse, Alfred Dujour, Joubert Duperrier, Odilon Duperrier, Jacques Enguerrand-Gourgue, Franck Etienne, Levoy Exil, Jacques Gabriel, Serge Gay, Max Gerbier, Jacques Geslin, Alexandre Gregoire, Elsie Haas, Georges Hector, Calixte Henry, Edith Hollant, Hector Hyppolite, Saincilus Ismael, Harry Jacques (aka Arijac), Eugene Jean, Francoise Jean, Nehemy Jean, Jean-Baptiste Jean, Carlo Jean Jacques, Eric Jean-Louis, Henri Jean-Louis, Guy Joachim, Antonio Joseph, Jasmin Joseph, Gisou Lamothe, Georges Laratte, Lyonel Laurenceau, Peterson Laurent, Luckner Lazard, Jean-Claude Legagneur, Adam Leontus, Georges Liautaud (sculptor), Jacques Liautaud, Franck Louissaint, Andrée Malebranche, Elzire Malebranche, Descollines Manes, Albert Mangones, Monique Mangones, Michele Manuel, Emmanuel Merisier, Ronald Mevs, Madsen Mompremier, Pierre Monosiet, Amerigo Montagutelli, Sully Moreau, Abner Mortimer, Abraham Mucius, Cesar Muller, Frantz Multidor, Gilda Thebaud Nassief, Andrée Georges Naude, André Navel, Paul Nemours, Vincent Nemours, Jacqueline Nesti, André Normil, Hervé Normil, Nooz, Charles Obas, Antoine Obin, Claude Obin, Donald Obin, Harrison Obin, Henri-Claude Obin, Jean-Marie Obin, Michaelle Obin, Michel Obin, Othon Obin, Philomé Obin, Seneque Obin, Sully Obin, Télémaque Obin, Gerard Olivier, Raymond Olivier, Daniel Orelus, Frantz Oriol, Felipe Orlando, Rémy Paillant (as Paillan), Pierre Pailliere, Roland Palanquet, Francis Paraison, Robal Paris, Rev. Jean Parisot, André J. G. Pascal, Damien Paul, Gerard Paul, Manno Paul, Jean-Baptiste Pericles, Frida Perou, Clara Petit, Yves Phanor, Prosper Phildor, Robert Philippe-Auguste, Salnave Philippe-Auguste, Marilene Phipps, Viviane Phipps, André Pierre, Antoine Pierre, Fernand Pierre, Frederic Pierre, René Pierre, Sonny Pierre, Vierge Pierre, Willy Pierre, Wilner Pierre, Evans Pierre-Augustine, Pierre Pierre-Canel, Emmanuel Pierre-Charles, Immacula Pierre-Louis, Prospere Pierre-Louis, Raymond Pierre-Louis, Wesner Pierre-Louis, Louis Vergniaud Pierre-Noel, Emmanuel Pierrette, Max Pinchinat, Enock Placide, Dieudonné Pluviose, Ronel Pointdujour, Serge Pointdujour, Fontenel Pointjour, Louverture Poisson, Jerome Polycarpe, Lamy Pomayrac, Fidelio Ponce, René Portocarrero, Lucie Poux, F. Pradel, Charles C. Pressoir, Edouard Preston, Frantz Prézumé, Guerdy Préval, Michel Préval, Emmanuel Prévil, Micheline Prézeau, Lucien Price, Yvon Princivil, Jonas Prophil, Cameau Rameau, Marcel Raveau, Dorleans Raymond, Geo Remponeau, Guy Reserve, Revinchal, Albert Rigaud, Jean-Claude Rigaud, Louis Rigaud, Franck Robuste, Jean-Claude Robuste, Camy Rocher, Ignacio Rocit, Gerald Rocourt, Fritz Rock, Samuel Roker, Louis Rosemond, Dieudonné Rouanez, Henry Rouanez, David Rouzier, Alix Roy, Marie-Florence Roy-Mason, Georges Saieh, Camille Saint-Aude, Robert St Brice, Lionel Saint-Eloi, Pétion Savain, Micius Stéphane, Buffon Thermidor, Luce Turnier, Gerard Valcin, Pierre-Joseph Valcin, Maurice Vital. 4to, cloth, d.j. First ed.