By way of remembering what happened only five years ago in New Orleans — the American city with perhaps the greatest historical ties to Haiti — here’s footage…first, a look at a man on the street caught in the rain, in a random scene which serves as a macro-micro metaphor of sorts; an abandoned Pentecostal church where someone respectfully organized the pastor’s wall decorations, chalice, and bible school diploma (the freeze-frame is of the church’s destroyed altar, with light streaming through the hole in the roof); a drumming circle which reflects one of humanity’s most ancient gatherings and which makes eminently manifest that people will always rise again.  It is my hope that the Superdome — a place which has seen both the very meanest of times and a city’s collective, heartening joy — never be torn down, as the …

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