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Resources for the study of Patricio Guzmán
Resources for the study of Patricio Guzmán.docx
Sara Gómez’s work on Criterion Channel
https://www.criterionchannel.com/sara-gomez-s-revolutionary-cuba
Resources for the Research of Glauber Rocha and Cinema Novo
Resources for Research Glauber Rocha
Candomblé – Kayla Morales
In last week’s film I was captivated by Candomblé. The religion seems to need women to lead it. While women are not the focus of this film the incorporation of the Candomblé ceremonies does place them in an important role as they seem to oversee carrying out the rituals. Women in this religion seem to […]
De Cierta Manera
Evie Rosheger After watching De Cierta Manera by Sara Gomez, I felt enlightened. The fiction/ nonfiction hybrid aspect to the film allowed me to further immerse myself into the realism portrayed in the film. Every character was allowed the space for complexity. I think something Sara was doing with this film was expressing her knowledge that the […]
Response #1 Kayla Morales
Reading about Imperfect cinema really resonated with me. I was introduced to the concept of third cinema a couple months ago in a documentary analysis class and now having read about imperfect cinema I am left with the question: are these two terms/classifications interchangeable? Regardless of if they are or aren’t, both third cinema and […]
First class — Tea del Valle
This week in class we watched excerpts from Octavio Getino and Fernando Solana’s La Hora de los Hornos, as well as excerpts from some of Santiago Alvarez’s documentaries. I was really surprised by the use of stop-motion like editing, specifically in one of Alvarez’s documentaries of the local women dancing to music. I’m not sure if it is just different […]
New Latin American Cinema and the ICAIC
As we read in Julio García Espinosa’s “For an Imperfect Cinema,” a subversive cinema was already happening throughout the American continent in the 60s. This type of cinema was a response to all the contemporary liberation movements. Cuba’s Film Institute (ICAIC) was created with the twofold purpose of supporting revolutionary films within the island, which […]
