Sascha Rose

Sascha Rose is a first-generation Haitian-American musician and filmmaker who grew up in Maine. Her Haitian roots have long inspired her work, as she tells stories of colonial resistance, liberation, and connection to the divine and natural world through music and film. As claims to sovereignty are diffusely woven through Black and Indigenous art, Sascha sees this as a multi- and inter-generational goal for those who have experienced ancestral dispossession. Despite being covertly discussed, she believes that the cartographic mapping of our place takes up every medium, academic, artistic, and philosophical alike. Just as we have the responsibility to be good ancestors for our descendants, we also, in tandem, are responsible for being the dreams of our ancestors.  

Now expanding her music practice to include drum machines and loop pedals, she is exploring the intersections of electronic production and Black Folk music traditions. Her primary film focus is currently developing ‘Sugar in the River’, a screenplay about two contemporary sisters who must fight in the Haitian Revolution to return to their own timeline. While this story is heavily influenced by her own life, Sascha also draws on many historical events recorded in C.L.R. James’s ‘The Black Jacobins’.

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