The filmmaker visits her dying father one last time. A phantasmagorical home movie about
the sadness of dying far from home.
Director:Miñuca Villaverde
Year of production: 1973
Country: United States
Running Time: 22’
Programming
Monday December 4th to Sunday December 10th
10:00 – 24:00 (GMT-5)
Festhome
Online for Cuba
Thursday December 7
19:00h (GMT-3)
Centro Cultural General San Martín
Sarmiento 1551, C1042 ABC, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Saturday December 9
15:30h (GTM-4h)
e-flux Screening Room
172 Classon Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11205, USA
Production: Miñuca Villaverde
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
Photography: Miñuca Villaverde
Screenplay: Miñuca Villaverde
Editing: Miñuca Villaverde
Sound Design: Miñuca Villaverde
Festival Selections: documenta fifteen, Ms. en Scene - Women’s Interart Center of New York.
Director's bio:
Miñuca Villaverde, Cuban filmmaker and writer. She worked as an actress and screenwriter in several productions of the Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC), among which “El parque” (1963, documentary) and “Elena” (1964, fiction) stand out. After going into exile in 1965, she directed short films such as “Blanca Puntica, a girl in love” (1973, Individual Independent Fellowship Award from the Creative Artists' Program Service, CAPS), “To my father” (1974) and “Poor Cinderella, still ironing “her husband shirt” (1978), linked to the New York experimental film scene. His documentary “Tent City” (1980), about a refugee camp during the Mariel exodus, is one of the most recognized works of Cuban audiovisual material made in the diaspora. She has published the books “Fue una gran fiesta” (2009, with Fernando Villaverde) and “Los Días de la coleccionista” (2010).