Trinidad & Tobago / 2009 / 87 mins

Language: English

Director: Dalton Narine

Producer: Dalton Narine

Screenwriter: N/A

Principal Cast: N/A

Genre: Documentary

Caribbean Spotlight

It is about a designer’s hubris to author a new word in art,“Mas ” (which overrides masquerade), to counteract the conformity andconservatism of Carnival in the 1970s. It’s about Peter Minshall reinventingMas as a cutting edge tool to enlighten spectators about the complexities oflife – a bold move that, in due course, influences the Olympic Games to featurehim as an artistic director in Barcelona, Atlanta and Salt Lake City. The filmfocuses on Minshall’s life and art, a tapestry woven from multiple threads thatinclude his “masography” coursing through 26 years; his design and stage acumen(documented in the 2006 presentation “The Sacred Heart”); his Olympic Gamescontribution; the Carnival stage (the Mas) in Trinidad preparing him for theworld stage (the Olympics); and his set pieces of political protest andentertainment provoking parallel emotions in major North American, European andAsian cities.