DFS Film: "I am Cuba"
Interweaving four stories of the revolution, his wildly schizophrenic celebration of Communist kitsch sparkles with Latin sensuality.
Location
BFVAC - Loew Auditorium
Sponsored by
Hopkins Center for the Arts
Audience
Public
Prof. Rachel Hynson from the Department of Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies will introduce the film. Her research focuses on sexuality, the family, and revolution in Cuba.
Hidden in Soviet archives for 30 years, this wildly schizophrenic celebration of Communist kitsch mixes Slavic solemnity with Latin sensuality--a whirling, feverish dance through both the decadence of Batista's Havana and the oppressive poverty of the Cuban people. In four stories of the revolution, the astonishingly acrobatic camera takes the viewer on a rapturous rollercoaster ride of bathing beauties, landless peasants, fascist police and student revolutionaries. D: Mikhail Kalatov, Cuba/USSR, subtitled, 1964, 141m
Location
BFVAC - Loew Auditorium
Sponsored by
Hopkins Center for the Arts
Audience
Public