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
Location
HAU1
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