I was deeply inspired by Agnes Varda’s Salut les cubains. Going back to Julio Garcia Espinosa’s manifesto, imperfect cinema may be an editor’s dream. I really loved how alive the film felt. It was whimsical and joyful. It’s revolutionary because it disrupts the idea if the Hollywood conventions of linear editing and story telling. In Varda’s film it’s not really the story that gets disturbed, but rather the structure and convention of how a story should be told.

On a more personal note, I also appreciated Varda’s sentiments about being a filmmaker and a mother. She and Sara Gómez had that in common. Varda didn’t believe that she had to sacrifice anything to “make it.” Women still struggle with this home-career balance in this day and age, so it truly was revolutionary of her and Sara Gomez to take complex risks for the sake of their art in the 1960s.