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Balseros
En el verano del 94, un equipo de reporteros de Televisión de Cataluña filmó y entrevistó a siete cubanos y a sus familias durante los días en que preparaban la arriesgada aventura de lanzarse al mar para así poder alcanzar la costa de los Estados Unidos, huyendo de las dificultades económicas que asolaban su país. http://cinematecacubana.com/ -
Maluala
En la época colonial, los negros esclavos que huían, cimarrones, fundaban comunidades conocidas como palenques. Maluala fue el principal palenque de la región oriental de Cuba. Ante la imposibilidad de vencer, los sublevados deciden tomar justicia por sus manos. Una historia de otro siglo, llena de acción. http://cinematecacubana.com/ -
Soy Cuba
Cuatro episodios que muestran diferentes aspectos de la vida en Cuba antes del triunfo revolucionario. I: María, una joven mestiza, se prostituye obligada por una extrema pobreza; II: Un campesino, enfrentado a la pérdida de sus tierras, se inmola junto a sus cosechas; III: En los días posteriores al desembarco del Granma un grupo de estudiantes se proponen un atentado al jefe de la policía; IV: El acoso del ejército de la tiranía hace que un campesino de la Sierra Maestra se incorpore a la lucha armada. http://www.cubatesoro.com -
OFF_LINE
OFF_LINE is a documentary about the human right to information, and by extension, the right to Internet access. It seeks to determine whether the root of misinformation (and lack of information) in the island lies in the economic restrictions imposed by the Cuban government, in the embargo imposed by the United States, or the authorities' need to control what information citizens can access. In Cuba, this controversy has no answer. The government unfamiliarity with new technologies means that the present and future of Internet access on the island remains limited. We review slogans and speeches made by the leaders of the Revolution during the literacy campaign, in 1962 and establish a ‘dialogue’ with this new phenomenon; we consult related texts and works of artists who have addressed the issue from different angles. We also presented routine questionnaires to specialists who independently have identified their work with this theme and use new technologies to express their ideas; we also have the opinion of citizens. So with OFF_ LINE, we present an alternate viewpoint than the one typically represented in Cuban mass media, one that expresses the need for access to information and a new literacy for our society. We also wish to generate controversy by organising alternative screenings of the documentary, managing the distribution on our account and at our own risk. We called these screening events "Switch - On". https://vimeo.com/103334240 -
Juan de los muertos
Juan tiene cuarenta años, de los cuales la mayoría los ha dedicado a vivir en Cuba sin hacer absolutamente nada. Ese es su modo de vida, y está dispuesto a defenderlo a cualquier precio, acompañado de su socio y compinche, Lázaro, que es igual de vago pero el doble de tonto. El único vínculo emocional de Juan es con su hija, Camila, una joven y bella muchacha que no quiere saber nada de su padre porque lo único que hace es meterse en problemas. De pronto comienzan a suceder una serie de extraños acontecimientos: la gente se vuelve violenta y se atacan unos a otros. Después da algunas dudas Juan llega a la conclusión de que se trata de zombies y decide que la mejor manera de enfrentar la situación es prosperar con ella y comienza un negocio con el slogan: Juan de los Muertos, Matamos a sus seres queridos. http://cinematecacubana.com/ -
Guantanamera
Un atípico cortejo fúnebre y un camión cubren el mismo recorrido, aunque con muy diferentes cometidos, el cortejo, compuesto por un funcionario, su esposa Gina y un anciano, debe cumplir un ahorrativo plan estatal de traslado de difuntos. El camión, conducido por Mariano realiza su recorrido habitual. Lo que comenzó siendo un cruce fortuito, termina convirtiéndose en un encuentro continuo. Mariano y Gina coinciden y se reconocen: Gina fue profesora en la universidad donde Mariano estudió y un amor frustrado para éste. La caravana fúnebre avanza. Sus tropiezos con el camión y un sinfin de divertidas peripecias van uniendo poco a poco a Gina y Mariano hasta conseguir que ambos tomen una decisión. -
1912, Voces para un silencio
1912, VOCES PARA UN SILENCIO es el titulo general para el proyecto de tres capitulos dedicado a la historia del Partido de los Independientes de Color (PIC). Una aproximacion necesaria a esta pagina tan poco conocida de la historia de CUBA. Se trata de un material documental , didactico, cuyos recursos principales son las voces de los historiadores y figuras de la cultura cubana que de alguna manera se han ocupado del tema y expresan sus valoraciones. Pero este capitulo es una especie de introduccion al tema que pretende cubrir algunos antecedentes en la historia de lucha de resistencia de los afrocubanos. Un recorrido necesario para ir paso a paso en la trayectoria del movimiento negro en cuba desde la epoca colonial, las luchas por la independencia y la situacion de los negros cubanos una vez que la Isla de Cuba logro su independencia en 1902. Aparece la referencia de lideres negros muy importantes desde el siglo XIX como son los casos de Juan Gualberto Gomez, Martin Morua Delgado. Se habla de la importancia de la figura de Antonio Maceo, de Quintin Banderas. -
Poetry and Politics in Latin American Cinema
By tracing a Latin American centric social, geo-political, cultural, historical, cinematic map, we will be looking at the praxis of key visionary filmmakers and cinematic movements. We will examine how these filmmakers, their films, their texts, and their legacies engage local and global contexts. Cinema from the global south is not an addendum to "First World Cinema"; the majority of world cinema is actually produced in the "Third World”. By mapping the vibrant, often neglected, legacy of Latin American cinema, we will revisit films from New Latin American Cinema to more contemporary films from the continent in order to delve into the poetry and politics of a subjective repertoire of films. By grounding our critical approach and analyses in the historical, theoretical, political, social, economic, and cultural framework that these films were created in, “Poetry and Politics in Latin American Cinema” aims to deconstruct some of the dominant, oppressive discourses and colonial systems that provoked the counter-narratives and resistance manifest in these cinematic works.
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Cine hispano
“Las películas son un mundo de fragmentos”, propuso una vez Jean-Luc Godard, el director de la Nouvelle Vague francesa. Estos fragmentos, trozos audiovisuales de la realidad, captan nuestra imaginación. El cine es un sitio interacción social, de entretenimiento, de aburrimiento, de placer estético, de crítica cultural, de muchas cosas. Nos hacen pensar de manera diferente. Confirman y, aún mejor, desafían nuestras visiones del mundo. Y, a veces, forman parte de quienes somos. En este curso, estudiaremos (y de manera fragmentaria) el texto y el contexto de algunos de estos mundos de fragmentos. A través del análisis de películas de Argentina, Colombia, Cuba, España, Estados Unidos, México, Paraguay y Perú, se examinarán géneros cinematográficos, prácticas estéticas y conceptos sociológicos y políticos (como la clase socio-económica, el género, la ideología, la raza y la sexualidad). -
Inmigración en el cine
This course is designed for students taking an intermediate to advanced Spanish course with focus on Hispanic culture and language through film. Undoubtedly, films are a rich source of
meaningful cultural information and students can come to understand much about a country’s culture through the discussion and analysis of films. The combination of sound, image and language provided by the films engages and stimulates students’ senses and cognitive faculties simultaneously. Films will be selected from a variety of Hispanic countries, emphasizing the connection between language, culture, society and visual representation. The main topic or
theme of this course will be the representation of ‘migration’ in the Hispanic Contemporary Films: women, slavery, trafficking, displacement and groups of people traveling from Spain to
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Cuba in Film: Capturing a Revolution
To study the Cuban Revolution is to willingly enter into a battlefield of opinions, politics, and years of trauma. For some it is the single-most “successful” revolution in Latin America, while for others it is an example of dictatorship and a consistent denial of human rights. While the revolution is highly politicized and is often covered with pre-determined notions of good and evil, right and wrong, we will work to go beyond this binary to analyze Cuba through its cinema. In our study of Cuba, we will analyze the film representations (Cuban, US, Spanish, and those from the extended diaspora) of the Cuban Revolution to become aware of how these representations of the Cuban revolution are created and reinforce or challenge our notions of Cuba. Through a close analysis of the film industry, the use of cinema, narrative tools, soundtracks, camera angles, camera focus, character development, funding, and the cultural industry we will critically research how each of these aspects contribute to the versions of Cuba that we come in contact with in large and small screens. We will learn to recognize how the different versions of Cuba are created, challenged, or questioned. We will analyze how film and audiovisual language continues to reflect on the complexities of Cuban society, and how social media and technology is now challenging the limits of Cuban film, and possibly of the Revolution itself. -
Hispanic Film
This course examines film by Spanish and Latin American directors. Students study films as an independent genre using specific structural forms as the means of analysis (close-up, soundtrack, frame, etc.). Students will formulate interpretations that move between the formal, technical composition of films and the concrete socio-historic and cultural reality to which each film refers and shapes. Course activities include screening of films, discussion of articles that focus on literary theory and film analysis, and writing short papers. -
El techo
En el centro de La Habana, sobre una azotea, tres jóvenes amigos se reúnen día a día para contarse historias y sueños, a tratar de que el tiempo pase sin notarse. En medio de su aburrimiento, sin apenas recursos y soñando la prosperidad, deciden armar un negocio propio. El costo de este sueño, al fin, los conducirá a la madurez personal no exenta de cierta felicidad. (Portal del cine y audiovisual Latinoamericano y caribeño) -
Introduction to Spanish-Language Film
This course is an introduction to appreciating and understanding film art as it relates to the rich and diverse cinema history of Latin America. Conducted entirely in Spanish, the course focuses on students’ acquisition of knowledge on the material and principles of film form, or the basic elements of film narrative, mise-en-scène, editing, and sound. Students will be asked to put their new knowledge into practice by watching closely and analyzing major films produced across the Latin American regions in the 20th and 21st centuries, from Argentina to Chile to Bolivia to Chile to Brazil to Cuba to Mexico. A variety of film genres will be enjoyed, including the documentary, the musical, the comedy, the thriller, the coming-of-age movie and the road film. The “New Latin American Cinema” or the socially-engaged film of the 1960s and 1970s will also receive attention in the course. In addition to studying film as an art form we will also tackle prominent issues in contemporary film studies, including film theory, the history of audiences and the role of cinema as a form of mass media. -
Latin American Cinema
In this course we will explore how Latin Americans have represented themselves on the big screen, through close readings of representative films from each of the following major periods:- silent cinema (1890s-1930s),
- studio cinema (1930s-1950s),
- Neorealism/Art Cinema (1950s),
- the New Latin American Cinema (1960s-1980s), and
- contemporary cinema (1990s to today)
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Latin American Film & Television Studies
This course is an introduction to Latin American film and television studies. It is conducted in Spanish and is open to graduate students and advanced undergraduates with the permission of the instructor. Students will acquire knowledge on contemporary trends in film and television studies, including film theory, the archival turn, and ethnographies of television reception, as they relate to the film and television cultures of the rich and diverse regions of Latin America. The course’s historical purview takes students from classical narratives of the 1930s and 40s to revolutionary cinema of the 1960s and 70s to melorealism and the telenovela of the contemporary period. -
Cultura Hispanoamericana
"El curso se enfoca en procesos de cambio cultural en comunidades hispanohablantes de las Américas. Las metodologías empleadas incluyen la histórica (a base de la organización en forma narrativa de evidencia documentada), la transcultural (a base del estudio de las interacciones dinámicas entre perspectivas culturales) y la comunitaria (a base de experiencias vitales de participación comunitaria). " -
De cierta manera
Conflicts between old habits that perpetuate marginalization and a new moral era, in the context of the social tranformation that took place in Cuba beginning with the victory of the 1959 Revolution. The construction of the Miraflores neighborhood in 1962 by its residents: the conflicts, contradictions and changes seen from a personal, individual perspective. The film is based on true events and combines documentary wth fiction. (Translation by Jeimy Hernandez) -
Cartas del Parque
La historia tiene lugar en la ciudad de Matanzas, cien kilómetros al oeste de La Habana, en 1913. Dos jóvenes enamorados, cada uno por su lado y sin que el otro lo sepa, solicitan los servicios de un escribano para comunicarse a través de las cartas que este redacta. Poco a poco, los sentimientos del escribano van a imponerse por encima de su voluntad y revelarán una verdad eterna: al amor no se le puede hacer trampas; es el amor quien domina en este juego. (Ecured.cu) -
Lucía
Traces episodes in the lives of three Cuban women, each named Lucía, from three different historical periods: the Cuban war of independence (with Spain), the 1930's, and the 1960's. (IMDB) -
Las aventuras de Juan Quinquín
La película recoge las aventuras y desventuras de un campesino que durante la etapa prerrevolucionaria debe aprender a sobrevivir apelando a las más insospechadas maneras. Monaguillo, torero, artista de circo, Juan Quinquín debe enfrentarse también al abusivo alcalde de su pueblo, lo que provoca que, tras conocer y enamorarse de Teresa, decida incorporarse a las guerrillas revolucionarias. (Cuba Tesoro) -
La primera carga al machete
En Octubre de 1868 se inicia la guerra contra la dominación española. Carlos Manuel de Céspedes ocupa Bayamo y un capitán español envía dos fuertes columnas. Éstas son diezmadas por las tropas de Máximo Gómez, que utilizan por primera vez el machete como arma de guerra. Audaz filme-encuesta rodado al estilo de un reportaje, con entrevistas a los personajes históricos. Obra cumbre del realizador, aún cuando adolece de una fatigosa cámara en mano y contrastada fotografía, a imagen y semejanza de las películas primitivas. (Cuba Cine) -
El Mégano
Este documental está considerado como antecedente del Cine Cubano y uno de los que da origen al Movimiento del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano. Es una denuncia a las infrahumanas condiciones de vida y trabajo de los carboneros de la Ciénaga de Zapata en Cuba antes de 1959. Desde el punto de vista temático, está considerado como el antecedente más importante del cine cubano de la Revolución realizado posteriormente por el Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos (ICAIC). La película es un documento importante para el cine nacional, tanto por sus méritos artísticos como por su valor social que llevó al régimen de Batista a secuestrarla por “subversiva y peligrosa”. -
Estorvo
O pesadelo existencialista de um personagem anônimo que vaga por uma grande cidade de hoje. Depois de uma noite mal dormida, o protagonista acorda com a campainha da porta tocando insistentemente. Pelo olho mágico,vê um desconhecido de terno e gravata, barba e cabelos longos, que lhe lembra alguém que não consegue identificar. Não sabe por que aquele homem está ali nem o que pode querer, mas tem uma certeza imediata: ele representa uma ameaça para sua vida. Veste-se às pressas, aproveita uma distração do visitante e logra escapar. Mas não tem a menor dúvida de que o desconhecido se lançou no seu encalço e que o pesadelo apenas começou. E assim se inicia uma alucinante perseguição através da cidade. Acossado, desconfiado de tudo e de todos, afrontando a violência cotidiana, o seu próprio passado, os seus fantasmas, revê amigos que há muito não encontrava, tenta o contato com uma mãe muda e ausente, busca proteção da irmã com quem sempre manteve uma relação ambígua, procura apoio da ex-mulher e vai se envolvendo numa trama de suspense crescente com uma série de personagens extremados: uma ninfomaníaca, motoqueiros, marginais, plantadores de maconha, contrabandistas, policiais corruptos, gente à deriva... É uma fuga sem destino que penetra cada vez mais fundo no seu próprio mundo, traindo, roubando, se degradando, buscando descobrir o enigma da sua caminhada, compreendendo do que foge, quem o persegue, para onde vai. A resposta vem no fio de uma faca. (Cinemateca Brasileira) -
Hello Hemingway
A young girl's academic asperation conflict with her family's struggle against poverty. Both these aspects are made all the more potent by the clear view they have of Ernest Hemingway's mansion in their home town just outside Havana. (Film Affinity US) -
Cine contemporáneo latinoamericano
Using methods that both embrace and critique the study of national cinemas, this course provides a survey of cinema from across the Latin American region, concentrating on the changing tropes of contemporary cinema and including screenings as part of the AFI Latin American Film Festival. -
Cuba baila
Los deseos y esfuerzos de una familia de muy pocos ingresos, para realizar el sueño de celebrar los quince años de su hija a un nivel mayor que el permitido por su posición económica llevan al padre al punto de la locura. (Kimbara Cine Cubano) -
Suite Habana
Panorámica de una ciudad en la que la multiplicidad de rostros y lugares se entrecruzan con las memorias de personajes anónimos. Seres sumamente peculiares que representan una curiosa diversidad de grupos sociales que viven en La Habana de hoy. --- Documentary combines with narrative film to offer a leisurely-paced look into the lives of ten average Cubans in a meditation on life in modern-day Havana. From children playing in the streets to the elderly woman who seldom moves from her place in front of the television. It combines songs and imagery to fully immerse the viewer in the Cuban experience. (Portal del cine y audiovisual Latinoamericano y caribeño) -
Viva Cuba
Malú is from an upper-class family and her single mother doesn't want her to play with Jorgito, who she looks down on because of his lower-class background. Jorgito's mother, a poor socialist proud of her family's social standing, places similar restrictions on her son. What neither woman recognizes is the immense strength of the bond between Malú and Jorgito. When the children learn that Malú's mother is planning to leave Cuba, they decide to run away and travel to the other side of the island to find Malú's father and persuade him against signing the forms that would allow it. (DVD container) -
Latin American Documentary
This course will investigate Latin American documentary by focusing on three important topics in Latin American cultural studies. We will screen recent and historical documentaries about (1) underdevelopment and poverty, (2) the history and memory of the Southern Cone military dictatorships, and (3) popular culture and folklore. These three topics will provide material for an investigation of documentary form. With respect to each topic, we will consider how the resources of documentary filmmaking are employed to frame the same subject matter in different ways. -
Latin American Cinema: 1930 to the Present
This course is a survey of Latin American cinema that spans from the 1930s to the present. Topics will include Mexican Golden Age cinema as well as the New Latin American Cinema of the 1960s and 1970s and contemporary new new waves. The course will examine key films in the history of Latin American cinema including María Candelaría (Emilio Fernandez, 1944), Memories of Underdevelopment (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Cuba,1968), and The Jackal of Nahueltoro (Miguel Littín, 1969) as well as accomplished contemporary productions such as Edifício Master (Eduardo Coutinho, 2002) and Neighboring Sounds (Kleber Mendonça Filho, 2012). The course will put these films in dialogue with key debates within Latin American cultural studies including debates around national culture, national identity, aesthetics and politics, and underdevelopment. In many cases, we will compare filmic treatments of these questions from different countries and from different time periods. -
Postmodernismo: la historia en la producción cultural latinoamericana
Un estudio de la representación de la historia en la ficción y el cine latinoamericano y su desarrollo temático y técnico con un énfasis en la producción contemporánea. -
Después del cine latinoamericano: Tradición y renovación
Un estudio del cine latinoamericano y su desarrollo temático y técnico con un énfasis en la producción contemporánea. -
Cine latinoamericano: re-definiendo identidades siglo XXI
Un estudio del cine latinoamericano y su desarrollo temático y técnico con un énfasis en la producción contemporánea. -
Fresa y chocolate
Diego, a cultivated, homosexual and skeptical young man, falls in love with a young heterosexual communist full of prejudices and doctrinal ideas. First come rejection and suspicion, but also fascination. Fresa y chocolate is a coming-of-age story, told through the development of a great friendship which overcomes incomprehension and intolerance. (IMDB) -
Alicia en el Pueblo de las Maravillas
A satire about the life of the Cuban people. Alicia, a culture instructor, is sent to a small town "Maravillas", which is itself an exaggerated, but very ingenious reflection of the real Cuba. The adventures that she has there are almost as crazy and senseless as the ones lived by the other Alice (in Wonderland), reflecting the indoctrination, coercion, absolutims, and many other everyday problems in Cuban society. (IMDB) -
Fresa y chocolate
Diego, a cultivated, homosexual and skeptical young man, falls in love with a young heterosexual communist full of prejudices and doctrinal ideas. First come rejection and suspicion, but also fascination. Fresa y chocolate is a coming-of-age story, told through the development of a great friendship which overcomes incomprehension and intolerance. (IMDB) -
En la puta vida
Montevideo, Uruguay. In this comedic drama, Elisa, 27, dreams of opening her own hairdressing salon in one of the rich districts of the Uruguayan capital. A bit of a rebel, one day Elisa moves out of her mother's house with her two children and breaks up with Garcia, her boss and lover who has infuriated her by not wanting to get married. So, in the space of twenty-four hours, Elisa finds herself without a roof over her head, without a man, without a job and without money. Her best friend Loulou finds her a job - in the brothel run by Dona Jacqueline. And without really being aware of it, Elisa slides into prostitution, which leads her to Barcelona. She falls in love, she is exploited, she gets involved in transvestite gang wars, and meanwhile just dreams of earning enough money for her little beauty salon back home. (IMDB) -
Alicia en el Pueblo de las Maravillas
A satire about the life of the Cuban people. Alicia, a culture instructor, is sent to a small town "Maravillas", which is itself an exaggerated, but very ingenious reflection of the real Cuba. The adventures that she has there are almost as crazy and senseless as the ones lived by the other Alice (in Wonderland), reflecting the indoctrination, coercion, absolutims, and many other everyday problems in Cuban society. (IMDB) -
El impulso documental en el cine latinoamericano
Este curso pretende ofrecerles a los estudiantes una introducción al cine latinoamericano al trazar su trayectoria histórica desde el cine mudo al presente, al examinar diferentes contextos y modos de producción, y al analizar diferentes tendencias estéticas. A la vez, se propone darles una introducción al análisis fílmico al familiarizarles con los términos especializados y con varias líneas críticas que han surgido del campo de los estudios fílmicos. Este trimestre nos enfocaremos en el documental y, más ampliamente, en el “impulso documental” el cual se hace evidente en películas que se suelen caracterizar como de ficción. -
Memorias del subdesarrollo
Sergio, a wealthy bourgeois aspiring writer, decides to stay in Cuba even though his wife and friends flee to Miami. Sergio looks back over the changes in Cuba from the Castro revolution to the Cuban missile crisis, the effect of living in an underdeveloped country, and his relations with his girlfriends Elena and Hanna. (IMDB) -
Memorias del subdesarrollo
Sergio, a wealthy bourgeois aspiring writer, decides to stay in Cuba even though his wife and friends flee to Miami. Sergio looks back over the changes in Cuba from the Castro revolution to the Cuban missile crisis, the effect of living in an underdeveloped country, and his relations with his girlfriends Elena and Hanna. (IMDB) -
Confesión a Laura
The action is situated in Colombia on April 9, 1948, date in which took place the famous "Bogotazo". It is a story of love frustrated by political circumstances. Laura, a spinster schoolteacher, lives to Josefina and Santiago, public employee. The three characters will be besieged by 24 hours, targeted by snipers, will be forced to show such which are or they would have liked to be. (IMDB) -
Confesión a Laura
The action is situated in Colombia on April 9, 1948, date in which took place the famous "Bogotazo". It is a story of love frustrated by political circumstances. Laura, a spinster schoolteacher, lives to Josefina and Santiago, public employee. The three characters will be besieged by 24 hours, targeted by snipers, will be forced to show such which are or they would have liked to be. (IMDB)