Cuba: Undergrounds
In partnership with : Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola in San Sebastian, Filmoteca de Catalunya & Punto de Vista Festival
Amateur films made within various networks linked to Cuban film clubs, from the late 1950s to the 2000s, digitised by the Los Archivistas Salvajes collective.
EL CAYO DE LA MUERTE
The Cay of Death
Vicente Cruz / Eulalio Cruz / 1958 / Cuba / 25′ / No dialogue
Production: Local Group of Amateurs San Antonio de los Baños / Photography: Jesus Mejias / Sound: Rafael Ramírez, Institute of Acoustic Ruins / Copy contact: Zine Eskola / carolina@zine-eskola.eus
A group of Irish scientists are waiting for a castaway to wash up on their shores, so they can catch him and turn him into a monster.
PERREZ
Armando Pintado/ 1981 / Cuba / 25′ / Aucun dialogue
Production: Cine Club Sigma / Copy contact: Zine Eskola / carolina@zine-eskola.eus
The parallel lives of a young man, solely focused on building an attractive physique and maintaining his solitary individuality.
A NORMAN MCLARREN
Manuel Marcel / 1990 / Cuba / 12′ / Espagnol
Production: Cine Club Sigma / Copy contact: Zine Eskola / carolina@zine-eskola.eus
Real images and superimposed drawings create a synthesis full of vibrant suggestions about the absurdity, complexity and beauty of our planet.
HABANA SOLO
Juan Carlos Alom / 2000 / Cuba / 15′ / Aucun dialogue
Copy contact: Zine Eskola / carolina@zine-eskola.eus
Alom combines his fascination for the urban harmonies of Havana with a rhythmic exploration of the Afro-Cuban presence in Cuban society.
OPUS HABANA
Ricardo Vega / 2022 / Cuba, France / 15′ / Aucun dialogue
Production: Telebemba / Copy contact: Zine Eskola / carolina@zine-eskola.eus
Guided by a book by Néstor Almendros that he acquired clandestinely in Havana in the 1980s, Ricardo Vega filmed in 8 mm and edited the images in Paris three decades later.
