Cuba: tribute to documentalist Santiago Álvarez

Feature films projection made in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Cuba, the Embassy of the Republic of Cuba in Mexico and the Cuban Institute of Art and Cinematographic Industry.

Now  

Santiago Álvarez | Cuba | 1965 | 5 min | S/C 

An aesthetic look at modern authoritarianism, the technique of superimposing images on the music that accompanies them and the recounting of the racial struggle in the history of mankind, are explored in this five-minute project.

LBJ  

Santiago Álvarez | Cuba | 1968 | 18 min | B 

Throughout the history of mankind, violent attacks have been committed against social integrity, as proof Alvarez places us in the decade of the sixties, agitated by its political context: the racial struggle led by Martin Luther King, the Vietnam War and the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the latter being enough reason for Lyndon B. Johnson to become president of the United States.

Hanoi tuesday 13  

Santiago Álvarez | Cuba | 1968 | 38 min | B15 

With rhythmic elegance and a poetic structure, it shows how the Vietnamese people fought for their freedom from the day the bombing of the city of Hanoi began. Santiago Álvarez himself considers this his best work, and among the films that dealt with the war in Vietnam, it was one of the most awarded in international festivals

Cyclone

Santiago Álvarez | Cuba | 1963 | 22 min | S/C 

This documentary is the memory of a nightmare, the passage of Hurricane Flora in 1963 through the eastern part of the island. Not as the observer who approaches, but as one who is part of the raw reality, Álvarez composes the vision of a human tragedy generated in the untimely nature.

Maximum capacity 60 people.