Black Cuba

Programmed by Yasmina Price

As a cultural and political instrument, cinema was central to the Cuban Revolution, and served as a way for Afro-Cubans to assert their place in the process of collective transformation. Working across documentary, narrative, and experimental forms, the filmmakers of this watershed historical era celebrated Afro-Cuban cultural life while confronting the island’s legacies of enslavement, colonization, and ongoing racialized disparities. Black Cuba centrally showcases films from the 60s and 70s revolutionary period alongside innovative contemporary works to capture the express richness and variety of Afro-Cuban national and diasporic experiences.