Cuba: Inside / Out
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.
