Third session of the Cine-Kin: Filipa César et al. film programme, running parallel to the Meteorizações exhibition. The session will feature screenings of Santiago Álvarez's Year 7 (1966), Sara Gómez's ""One Way or Another"" (1977) and Santiago Álvarez's Now! (1965).

Offering an overview of practices, generations, and production contexts that, while very different, converge on the same type of ethical, aesthetic, or thematic concerns, this cycle reflects on a cinema that does not merely seek to describe the world, but above all to act upon it. It is, above all, a series of encounters that share a radical attention to the conditions of image production and their consequences in the world.

AÑO 7 | YEAR 7

Santiago Álvarez | CUB | 1966 | 17’

A retrospective of the events that marked the year 1965, the seventh year of the Cuban revolutionary government. The film, one of many “noticieros” made by Santiago Álvarez, consists of montages of excerpts from previously broadcast reports, without commentary.

DE CIERTA MANERA | ONE WAY OR ANOTHER

Sara Gómez | CUB | 1977 | 73’

The only feature film by Cuban filmmaker Sara Gómez, “One Way or Another” takes place in Miraflores, Cuba, and tells the story of the romance that blossoms between Mario, a worker, and Yolanda, a teacher, which will call into question the differences in perspectives and values of revolutionary Cuba. Beginning as a documentary, the film gradually fictionalizes its story.

NOW!

Santiago Álvarez | CUB | 1965 | 6’

Using morgue photographs, newsreel footage, film excerpts, and a song by Lena Horne, Cuban filmmaker Santiago Álvarez unleashed “Now!”, one of the most powerful pieces of propaganda from Cuban cinema of the 1960s.