Cuba: Inside / Out

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.