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Cuba: Inside / Out

135'
Thu 27
March
14h00
Christine Cinéma Club
+ discussion
Tent City - © Miñuca Villaverde
El Negro - © Eduardo Manet_Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola_ICAIC
LBJ - © Santiago Álvarez_Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola_ICAIC

In partnership with : Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola in San Sébastian, Filmoteca de Catalunya & Punto de Vista Festival

Official films produced by the ICAIC (Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Arts and Industry) and a film by an exiled filmmaker (Tent City), recently digitised and restored by the EQZE’s Second Hand programme and the Filmoteca de Catalunya.

TENT CITY
Miñuca Villaverde / 1981 / United States / 31′ / English
Copy contact: Josep Calle Buendia / josepcalle@gencat.cat

The story of the Cubans who arrived in Miami during the Mariel boatlift and were housed in makeshift camps in the heart of the city.


EL NEGRO
Eduardo Manet / 1960 / Cuba / 10′ / Spanish
Production: ICAIC – Instituto Cubano de Arte e Industria Cinematográficos / Copy contact:
Zine Eskola / carolina@zine-eskola.eus

Using a variety of photographs and moving image fragments, the film works as a manifesto condemning racial discrimination in Cuba from the colonial era to the triumph of the Revolution.


LBJ
Santiago Álvarez
/ 1968 / Cuba / 18′ / No dialogue
Production: ICAIC – Instituto Cubano de Arte e Industria Cinematográficos / Copy contact:
Zine Eskola / carolina@zine-eskola.eus

Reusing a variety of archive footage and interviews, the film analyses US policy, by looking back at the murders of Martin Luther King Jr., John and Bob Kennedy.


ORACIÓN
Marisol Trujillo / Miriam Talavera / Pepin Rodriguez
/ 1984 / Cuba / 9′ / Spanish
Production: ICAIC – Instituto Cubano de Arte e Industria Cinematográficos / Copy contact:
Zine Eskola / carolina@zine-eskola.eus

A reading of the poem Oración por Marilyn Monroe, by the Nicaraguan poet Ernesto Cardenal, connects the mythical actress’s fatal demise with the misery and exploitation of American childhood.

Thu 27
March
14h00
Christine Cinéma Club
+ discussion

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