Public Screening in August: Film, Art, Revolution, Everyday Life.

On August 13 at 7pm Cuban films from the archive will be discussed at the request of Florian Zeyfang. Films by Sara Gómez, Chris Marker, Sabá Cabrera Infante and Orlando Jiménez Leal will be screened. „Más surrealista que socialista – the architect and artist Ricardo Porro experienced the first euphoric years after the Cuban Revolution more surreal than socialist. In the two decades after the revolt, some of the most exciting films testified to this atmosphere of departure in Cuba, as well as to the international sympathy and support. The new policy encouraged the search for new visual languages, as well as a debate about the possible or necessary contributions of filmmakers and artists to the revolution. These discussions partly influenced productions, for example by Tomás Guitiérez Alea. Julio García Espinosa wrote his famous text on "imperfect cinema" (Cine imperfecto). To some extent they also led to conflict and failure as on the occasion of the experimental film P.M. of Sabá Cabrera Infante and Orlando Jiménez Leal in 1961. In the late 1960s and the "Gray Quinquennium" in the early 1970s the struggle for economic survival and the approach to socialism changed the debates. The "surrealist" euphoria of the early years was now replaced by the conflicts of everyday life.“ (Florian Zeyfang)