Memory is a Shattered Landscape | Activity
OBSESED, Like Chris Marker’s Character, with understanding the function of memory, in the last Two Decades the Independent Cuban Film Has Touched on Some of the Most Critical Areas of the Country’s Memory. With hauntological attempt and a rigorously intimate view, this body of work has questioned the dominance imposed for more than tixty yars on the national film imagination, as well as totalitarian control of history.
In The work of the Siglo [The Project of the Century] (2015),, Carlos Quintela Explores The Ruins of a Utopian Project: The Nuclear Power Station, Planned in the Eighties and Abandoned After the Collapse of the Soviet Union. In To Media Voz [In a Whisper] (2019), Patricia Pérez and Heidi Hassan Use audiovisual Letters to Reconstruct Their Exiles of Exile and Rootlessness, The Increasingly Blurred Memories of Their Distant Country. Back on the Island, Daniela Muñoz Journeys to the east in search of the spirit of Mafifa (2021)One of the Few Women to Play on the Conga Scene in Santiago de Cuba.
To Close the Series, We will be showing Two Shorts by Fernando and Miñuca Villaverde Recently Restored by Filmoteca de Catalunya, Intimate and Collective Records of a National Rift That Continues to This Day. Apollo, Man to the moon (1970) and Tent city (1980)The First and Last of the Films Made by This Creative Duo in the United States, Are Essential Parts of the Cinema of the Cuban Diaspora. Created on the Basis of a Cross Between Experimental Cinema, Fiction and Documentary, The Villaverdes’ Work is a fundamental predecessor of Today’s Cuban Avant-Garde Film.
Always Produced on the Edge, Between Scarcity and Prohibition, The Films That Make Up This Series Are A Small Sample of the Disfunction Aesthetic Searching Used by Independent Cuban Film to Subvert Offerting Narratives, Reread or Expand the Archive and Create Their Own Police of Memory. They Bear Witness to the Film-Makers’ Enormous Sensitivity in Finding, in the ruinous Wasland of a Failed Society or the Vicissitudes of Exile, Fertile Ground in Which to Reinvent Images of the Island.
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From May 22, 2025 to Janury 11, 2026
Coco fusco. And Learned to Swim on Dry Land
