SESSION 1: TUESDAY JAN 28: Sara Gómez Within Revolutionary Cuban Cinema 

In class: Excerpts from “For an Imperfect Cinema”, Julio García Espinosa 

Excerpts from The Hour of Furnaces (Pino Solandas and Getino) 

Excerpts from Santiago Álvarez’s documentaries 

Screening: Sara Gómez: An Afro-Cuban Filmmaker (Alessandra Muller, 2005) 

Salut les cubains (Agnes Varda 1962): https://archive.org/details/salut-les-cubains 

 

TOPICS SESSIONS 1-3: OPPOSITIONAL GAZE, INTERSECTIONALITY, DECOLONIAL FEMINISM 

 

SESSION 2: TUESDAY FEB 4: Sara Gómez’s Documentaries introduced by Susan Lord 

Screening: Iré a Santiago (1964) 

Guanabacoa: Crónica de mi familia (1966) 

Mi aporte (1972) 

Una isla para Miguel (1968) 

In class: Q&A with Susan Lord, Film and Media Professor at Queens University 

Readings: Devyn Spence Benson. “Sara Gómez: Afrocubana (Afro-Cuban Women’s) Activism after 1961”

Excerpts from Kelsey Wardlaw. “Filmación Intencional: The Relationship Between Race and Space in the Works of Sara Gómez”

 

SESSION 3: TUESDAY FEB 11: Black Cubans 

Screening: One Way or Another (1974) 

The Other Island (1968) Excerpts 

Readings: Ruby Rich: “One Way or Another: Sara Gómez and the Cuban Experience”  

Alison Fraunhar, “Mulata Cubana: The Problematics of National Allegory”

Optional: Odette Casamayor-Cisneros: Inquisitive Gazes: Sara Gómez’s Perspectives on Social Marginality from and within the Cuban Revolution” 

 

First round of presentations 

 

SESSION 4: TUESDAY FEB 25: Cinema Novo and Aesthetics of Hunger  

Readings: Glauber Rocha,“Aesthetics of Hunger”

Randall Johnson. “Introduction: Cinema Novo, the State, and Modern Brazilian Cinema” 

Darlene J. Sadlier, “Cinema Novo Redux” in A Century of Brazilian Documentary Film 

Screening: Cinema Novo, Eryk Rocha (2016) Excerpts 

Glauber O Film, O Labirinto do Brasil (Silvio Tendler, 2003) Excerpts  

 

TOPICS FOR SESSIONS 4-8: METAPHOR AND ALEGORY, DECOLONIZATION, AFRO-BRAZILIANS 

 

SESSION 5: TUESDAY MAR 4: Glauber Rocha’s Documentary Work 

Screening: Maranhão 66 (1966) 

Amazonas, Amazonas (1965) 

US Propaganda Film about Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo: 1932 film, 1938 film, 1943 film Inter-American Affairs,1960 film PAN AM

Di Glauber/Cavalcanti (Glauber Rocha – 1977) 

Readings: Glauber Rocha, “The Revolution is an Aesthetics”

Darlene J. Sadlier: “Documenting Death: Di Cavalcanti and Glauber, o filme”

 

Second round of presentations 

 

SESSION 6: TUESDAY MAR 11: Fishermen and Candomblé 

Screening: Arrial Do Cabo (Mário Carneiro, Paulo César Saraceni, 1960) 

Barravento (1962) 

Readings: Glauber Rocha, “The Cinematographic Revolution”

Excerpts from Bob Stam: Tropical Multiculturalism 

Dilek Önder: “Ambiguities and Double Voices in Barravento” 

Optional: James Hodgson: “Possibilities for queer revolution in Glauber Rocha’s  Barravento/The Turning Wind (1962)” 

 

Third round of presentations 

 

SESSION 7: TUESDAY MAR 18: The Sertão 

Screening: Black God, White Devil (1964) 

Antonio das Mortes (1969) Excerpts 

Readings: Mario Zupanovic: “Theatricality and performativity in Glauber Rocha’s cinema novo films”  

Ivana Ventes: “Politics and Aesthetics of Myth in Black God, White Devil”

Optional: Peter Henné: ““This Pain Grows Like the Sun”: Epistemology, Myth and History in Black God, White Devil”  

 

Fourth round of presentations 

 

SESSION 8: TUESDAY MAR 25: El Dorado 

Before class: Martin Scorsese on Glauber Rocha

Screening: Enthranced Earth (1967)

Cabezas Cortadas (1970) 

Readings:Glauber Rocha: “An Aesthetics of Dreams” 

Robert Stam: “Land in Anguish” 

Optional: Ismail Xavier: “Land in Anguish: Allegory and Agony” in Allegories of Underdevelopment

 

Fifth round of presentations 

 

SESSION 9: TUESDAY APRIL 1: Patricio Guzmán and Salvador Allende’s government 

In class: Excerpts from Solanas and Getino, “Towards a Third Cinema”  

Screening: The Battle of Chile, Part I: The Insurrection of Bourgeoisie (1975) 

Readings: Julianne Burton: “Patricio Guzmán: Politics and the Documentary in People’s Chile” 

Optional: Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky: The Eighteenth Brumaire of Patricio Guzmán: lessons from The Battle of Chile (1975-9) 

 

Sixth round of presentations 

 

TOPICS LESSONS 9-14: HISTORICAL MEMORY, POSTMEMORY, TIME-IMAGE, NARRATIVE COMMUNITIES, COLLECTIVE WITNESSING

 

SESSION 10: TUESDAY APRIL 8: The Memory of the Coup  

Screening: Chile, The Obstinate Memory (1997) 

Readings: Kaitlin M. Murphy. “The Materiality of Memory: Touching, Seeing, and Being the Past in Patricio Guzmán’s Chile, Memoria Obstinada”  

Optional: Jeffrey Skoler: “Chile: La Memoria Obstanada, (Chile: Obstinant Memory), Patricio Guzman” 

 

Seventh round of presentations 

  

SESSION 11: TUESDAY APRIL 22: Stars and Bones 

Screening: Nostalgia for the Light (2010) 

Readings: Conversation Between Frederick Wiseman and Patricio Guzman (EPK)  

David Martin-Jones: “Archival Landscapes and a Non-Anthropocentric ‘Universe Memory’ in Nostalgia de la luz/Nostalgia for the Light (2010)” 

William Guynn. “Patricio Guzmán’s Nostalgia for The Light”  

Optional: Brad Epps. “The Unbearable Lightness of Bones: Memory, Emotion, and Pedagogy in Patricio Guzmán’s Chile, la memoria obstinada and Nostalgia de la luz”  

 

Eighth round of presentations 

 

SESSION 12: TUESDAY APRIL 29: Sea and Bones 

Screening: The Pearl Button (2015)  

Readings: Tehsome Gabriel, “Third Cinema Updated” 

María del Pilar Melgarejo: “A Poetic of Beauty: Nature, Memory and Resilience in El Botón de Nacar/The Pearl Button (2015)” 

Optional: Carolina Díaz: “Ecologies from Below: Politics and the Memory of Water in Patricio Guzman’s The Pearl Button” 

 

Ninth round of presentations 

 

SESSION 13: TUESDAY MAY 6: The Popular Revolt and Guest Speaker PATRICIO GUZMÁN 

Screening: My Imaginary Country (2022) 

Guest Speaker: Patricio Guzmán 

 

SESSION 14: TUESDAY MAY 13 Student’s conference 

Presentation of the course website and students’ final papers