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Por Primera Vez: Cuba's Cinematic Legacies

    A revolution

    which doesn’t

    revolutionize

    (permanently)

    Its language

    alphabets

    gestures

    looks

    turns in on itself and dies (…)

    I say:

    'Release me from the obligation

    Of the prologue

    Let me speak (I do)

    with pan, zoom,

    traveling, decibels

    Mix, 24 frames

    Per second

    In my language made of

    Projected light.'

    In the zoo

    in Berlin, in Berlin

    I saw, I saw

    The green parrot

    And the parrot didn't

    See me.

    (Fernando Birri)

    

People in a mountain village get visually alphabetized in 1967, freedom fighters from Guinea Bissau learn filmmaking in Cuba in the early 1970s, a Canadian film professor gives a workshop in Havana and meets Birri's sculpture on a field. The films and talks in this program discuss what it means to "learn a film language" in Cuba. 



    Screening of:


    POR PRIMERA VEZ (Octavio Cortazar, Cuba 1967, 9 min)

    CUBA (Filipa César, France 2012, 10 min)

    
ARTURO (Pilar Alvarez, Cuba 2012, 3 min,)


    LESSONS IN PROCESS (Philip Hoffman, Canada/Cuba 2012, 30 min)


    as well as excerpts from digitized films from the Filmarchive Guinea-Bissau.


    Panelists: Filipa César (Berlin, Forum Expanded 2013), Philip Hoffman (Toronto, Forum Expanded 2009, 2013), Claudia von Alemann (filmmaker, EICT, Cologne/Havanna)

    Moderator: Florian Zeyfang (Umeå Academy of Fine Arts/Berlin, Forum Expanded 2013)

    Dates

    Past
    Sun 10.2.2013, 20:00 / HAU2

    Location

    • HAU1
      Stresemannstr. 29, 10963 Berlin

      There are two marked parking spots in front of the building. Access to the Parkett by means of a separate entrance with lift when necessary. Barrier-free restroom facilities are available. Tickets for wheelchair users and accompanying persons can be booked via the ticketing system. If you need any help, please contact our Ticketing & Service team at +49 (0)30 259004-27 or send us an email at 
      tickets@hebbel-am-ufer.de.

    • HAU2
      Hallesches Ufer 34, 10963 Berlin

      There are two marked parking spots in front of the building. Barrier-free restroom facilities are available. Four relaxed seats are available in the first row of HAU2. Tickets for wheelchair users and accompanying persons can also be booked via the ticketing system. If you need help, please contact our Ticketing & Service team at +49 (0)30 259004-27 or send us an email to
      tickets@hebbel-am-ufer.de.

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