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The films of Cuban Director Santiago Alvarez exist as a kind of fractured mirror on the last 40 years of American history, a subversive alternate history.
In a film career that began only with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959 and continued until his death in 1998, Alverez created 700 films.
Lacking formal training of any sort, Alvarez was appointed head of the fledgling Cuban Film Institute now legendary newsreel division, Noticerio ICAIC. Under his command for the next 30 years, the banal and utilitarian newsreel was transformed into a veritable laboratory of radical innovation.
This programme includes eight incredible films from Alvarez, including his legendary “Now!”, “79 Springtimes”, and “LBJ”.
“…still vibrant masterpieces of agit-cinema…"Rotterdam Film Festival
“Working directly and quickly and with equipment filmmakers would now reject as totally inadequate, he made a series of films in the 60s and early 70s that have yet to be beaten either as propaganda, as newsreels or as pieces of brilliantly improvised cinema. Why have we forgotten him?" Derek Malcolm, Guardian UK
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Cuba / Director: Santiago Alvarez / Cert: 15 / The Other Cinema
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