Sara Gómez offers a vivid critique of post-revolutionary Cuba in her only full-length feature, and Jiménez Leal documents night life in Havana amid the Bay of Pigs.
De cierta manera (One Way or Another) (1974)
Dir. Sara Gómez
78min, DCP
This vivid portrait of the post-revolutionary era explores the relationship between middle-class schoolteacher Yolanda and factory worker Mario, tracing how her latent class bias and his ingrained machismo manifest. In her only full-length feature, Gómez moves fluidly between inter-personal conflict, collective life and documentary footage deliver a sharp, intersectional perspective on the process–rather than the event–of social, economic and political transformation, reckoning with racialized poverty, gendered exclusion, and dedication to the revolutionary horizon.
P.M. (1961)
Dir. Orlando Jimenez Leal
13min, digital
Jiménez Leal documents nighttime revelry in Havana amid the Bay of Pigs. The censoring of this film and its fallout prompted Fidel Castro to give his infamous “Words to the Intellectuals” speech.
De cierta manera (One Way or Another) (1974)
Dir. Sara Gómez
78min, DCP
This vivid portrait of the post-revolutionary era explores the relationship between middle-class schoolteacher Yolanda and factory worker Mario, tracing how her latent class bias and his ingrained machismo manifest. In her only full-length feature, Gómez moves fluidly between inter-personal conflict, collective life and documentary footage deliver a sharp, intersectional perspective on the process–rather than the event–of social, economic and political transformation, reckoning with racialized poverty, gendered exclusion, and dedication to the revolutionary horizon.
P.M. (1961)
Dir. Orlando Jimenez Leal
13min, digital
Jiménez Leal documents nighttime revelry in Havana amid the Bay of Pigs. The censoring of this film and its fallout prompted Fidel Castro to give his infamous “Words to the Intellectuals” speech.
UPCOMING Screenings
RUNNING TIME
91min
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LANGUAGE
Both films in Spanish with English subtitles
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General Admission: $17
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