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A showcase of Cuban cinema in Germany (2022)
Among the most inexplicable realities of the past decade in Cuba is the lack of spaces where one can see Cuban cinema. Since the beginning of the 21st century, in almost all intellectual controversies on the Island, the little or no interest of the media and state institutions in promoting audiovisual…
More than one hundred hours of Cuban cinema in documenta...
The alternative Cuban film cycle presented by INSTAR being shown at the Documenta Fifteen international art fair in the German city of Kassel is “a marathon of films of all kinds that aims to create a sort of counter-canon, an alternative vision of Cuban reality,” filmmaker José Luis Aparicio told Radio Martí.
‘Land without images’: The Cuban cinema of the absent
The history of censorship in revolutionary Cuba (the act of twisting and violating an epidermis) begins with PM (1961), by Orlando Jiménez Leal and Sabá Cabrera Infante, a visual poem about the end of the night: that trance that, in Havana now and then, precedes the most diurnal darkness and…
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July 25, 2022
A showcase of Cuban cinema in Germany (2022)
Among the most inexplicable realities of the past decade in Cuba is the lack of spaces where one can see Cuban cinema. Since the beginning of the 21st century, in almost all intellectual controversies on the Island, the little or no interest of the media and state institutions in promoting audiovisual…
July 20, 2022
More than one hundred hours of Cuban cinema in documenta fifteen are an alternative vision
The alternative Cuban film cycle presented by INSTAR being shown at the Documenta Fifteen international art fair in the German city of Kassel is “a marathon of films of all kinds that aims to create a sort of counter-canon, an alternative vision of Cuban reality,” filmmaker José Luis Aparicio told Radio Martí.
July 12, 2022
‘Land without images’: The Cuban cinema of the absent
The history of censorship in revolutionary Cuba (the act of twisting and violating an epidermis) begins with PM (1961), by Orlando Jiménez Leal and Sabá Cabrera Infante, a visual poem about the end of the night: that trance that, in Havana now and then, precedes the most diurnal darkness and…
June 21, 2022
INSTAR brings to Documenta 15 a Cuba where art is a tool for change
Exhibitions of works, conferences, a film festival, book presentations, among other activities, are what the Hannah Arendt Institute of Artivism (INSTAR), directed by Cuban Tania Bruguera, brings to the 15th edition of Documenta, the international art exhibition held every five years in Kassel, Germany.
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