Programme

Forum Expanded

Por Primera Vez: Cuba's Cinematic Legacies

A revolution

which doesn’t

revolutionize

(permanently)

Its language

alphabets

gestures

looks

turns in on itself and dies (…)

I say:

'Release me from the obligation

Of the prologue

Let me speak (I do)

with pan, zoom,

traveling, decibels

Mix, 24 frames

Per second

In my language made of

Projected light.'

In the zoo

in Berlin, in Berlin

I saw, I saw

The green parrot

And the parrot didn't

See me.

(Fernando Birri)



People in a mountain village get visually alphabetized in 1967, freedom fighters from Guinea Bissau learn filmmaking in Cuba in the early 1970s, a Canadian film professor gives a workshop in Havana and meets Birri's sculpture on a field. The films and talks in this program discuss what it means to "learn a film language" in Cuba. 



Screening of:


POR PRIMERA VEZ (Octavio Cortazar, Cuba 1967, 9 min)

CUBA (Filipa César, France 2012, 10 min)


ARTURO (Pilar Alvarez, Cuba 2012, 3 min,)


LESSONS IN PROCESS (Philip Hoffman, Canada/Cuba 2012, 30 min)


as well as excerpts from digitized films from the Filmarchive Guinea-Bissau.


Panelists: Filipa César (Berlin, Forum Expanded 2013), Philip Hoffman (Toronto, Forum Expanded 2009, 2013), Claudia von Alemann (filmmaker, EICT, Cologne/Havanna)

Moderator: Florian Zeyfang (Umeå Academy of Fine Arts/Berlin, Forum Expanded 2013)

Dates

  • Past
    Sun 10.2.2013, 20:00 / HAU2

Location

HAU1
Stresemannstr. 29, 10963 Berlin

There are two marked parking spots in front of the building. Access to the Parkett by means of a separate entrance with lift when necessary. Barrier-free restroom facilities are available. Wheelchair users are kindly requested to register their attendance at least one day before the performance. Thank you for your understanding. If you need help, please contact our Ticketing & Service team at +49 (0)30 259004-27 or send us an email to tickets@hebbel-am-ufer.de.

HAU2
Hallesches Ufer 34, 10963 Berlin

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