One Night To Bloom Pioneers Literary Genre Multimedia MicroEpic

One Night To Bloom is a short biopic epic by Dr Kris Rampersad. It pioneers the new literary genre, the Multimedia Micro Epic. Find out more about the MultiMedia Micro Epic and how you can support, partner, collaborate, sponsor or advertise.

One Night To Bloom adapts the long-winded static classical epic for the interactive short-form that new media allows, blending audiovisual, textual and lyrical multimedia tools and techniques.

Epic Storyline in One Night To Bloom

The epic storyline of One Night To Bloom simultaneous spans the epoch called The Anthropocene that characterizes the dominance of humans and Dr 

Rampersad’s life to date, its impact on and influence of a small island, with representations of the Trinidad and Tobago and the Caribbean’s social, cultural, literary, industrial evolution.

The short film draws visually on Dr Rampersad’s travels, activism, and grassroots to global experiences as a multimedia and cultural heritage educator/facilitator working across media, academia, public, private and NGO sectors to facilitate adjustment, access and more conscientious use of new and social media. Thematically, it underscores many of the socio-cultural and political dilemmas that characterises the Anthropocene: environment and heritage degradation and conservation, health, pollution and plastics, gender inequalities, global travel, women’s and girls’ education, governance, censorship marginalization, alienation, the North-South and other development deficits.  

Pioneering MultiMedia MicroEpic  New Creative Genre in One Night To Bloom

Dr Rampersad pioneered, premiered and presented the genre in her short biopic film, One Night To Bloom, at the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission forum hosted online by the British Council on Commonwealth Day/International Women’s Day, March 8, 2021. Some 800 scholars passed through the event over two days where the film was available for viewing. Globalisation in Reverse was the theme of her presentation.

“Gender violence, like violent extremism, racism, discrimination and many other pernicious problems of our times will not go away unless we take a closer look at the cultural underpinnings of the power structures by which violence is institutionalised, entrenched and replicated in attitudes, habits and behaviours that are  being passed on from generation to generation,” she told the Commonwealth forum, noting that these are elements into which the film delves.

Dr Kris Rampersad’s film, One Night to Bloom, encompasses the wide arena of her pre—pandemic travel as a researcher, teacher and gender, media and heritage educator facilitator and consultant involved in shaping and sharpening focus on the development deficits and engaging with international to local agenda-setting, policy-planning, reform, training, outreach and advocacy.      

MultiMedia MicroEpic by Dr Kris Rampersad features the Nonagenarians

The film’s storyline reflects the impact and influence of her mother, a nonagenarian (in her 90s) on her efforts at excellence, from the springboard of early home teachings into the ‘school-world’ and wider world.

The epic storyline of One Night To Bloom simultaneous spans the epoch called The Anthropocene that characterizes the dominance of humans and her own life, to date, its impact on and influence of a small island, with representations of the Trinidad and Tobago and the Caribbean’s social, cultural, literary, industrial evolution.

“Her sacrifices, dreams and aspirations propelled my efforts and achievements. Yet despite utilising access and breaking through glass ceilings, I too was confronted by entrenched institutionalised social and gender violence aligned to discrimination, racism and stereotyping, that precipitated a personal health, financial and other crises. One Night To Bloom maps and captures that journey through the epic form and layering techniques that new multimedia allows.”

MultiMedia MicroEpic Biopic Theme Song unites Musical Traditions

The theme song of One Night To Bloom is ‘Footloose and Fancy Free.’ It was the theme song of the Cross Country, the first television series Rampersad wrote which remains a landmark in local television programming. The song is composed and sung by Oliver Chapman. Background music for One Night To Bloom is provided by the Trini Panman, Randolph Karamath, a Canadian-based music educator.

MultiMedia MicroEpic unifies traditional and new media cultures

Dr Rampersad explained that the epic form allowed for accommodation of such broad and deep considerations. While maintaining some of the core internal and external elements of the traditional epic, as lyricism, heroism, muse, journey and a broad range of personal and sometimes perilous ‘adventures’, One Night To Bloom adapts the long-winded static classical epic for the interactive short-form that new media allows, blending audiovisual, textual and lyrical multimedia tools and techniques.

The short film draws visually on Dr Rampersad’s travels, activism, and grassroots to global experiences as a multimedia and cultural heritage educator/facilitator working across media, academia, public, private and NGO sectors to facilitate adjustment, access and more conscientious use of new and social media. Thematically, it underscores many of the socio-cultural and political dilemmas that characterises the Anthropocene: environment and heritage degradation and conservation, health, pollution and plastics, gender inequalities, global travel, women’s and girls’ education, governance, censorship marginalization, alienation, the North-South and other development deficits.  

Epic Span of Social and Cultural Themes in MultiMedia MicroEpic

“Gender violence, like violent extremism, racism, discrimination and many other pernicious problems of our times will not go away unless we take a closer look at the cultural underpinnings of the power structures by which violence is institutionalised, entrenched and replicated in attitudes, habits and behaviours that are  being passed on from generation to generation,” she told the Commonwealth forum, noting that these are elements into which the film delves,” she says.

Philanthropists, scholars wishing to collaborate, sponsor and support expositions on the film, the new literary genre and other works by Dr Kris Rampersad can contact her through social media or here.

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