Ann Marie Stock - On Location in Cuba - Gables

Start: Nov 4 2010 7:00 pm

With the collapse of its Cold War relationship with the Soviet Union in the 1990s, Cuba plummeted into an era of scarcity and uncertainty known as the Special Period and only tentatively started to emerge with the new century. On Location in Cuba (UNC, $24.15) views these pivotal decades through the lens of cinema. Ann Marie Stock conducted hundreds of interviews
in Cuba to examine individual artists' lives and creative output. She explores the impact of the Cold War's end, the economic crisis that ensued, and the decentralization of the state's political, economic, and cultural apparatus. Stock focuses on what she calls Street Filmmaking -- the production of emerging audiovisual artists who work outside the state film industry -- to examine the island's transformation and changing notions of Cuban identity. Presented in collaboration with the Miami Consortium on Latin American and Caribbean Studies. 7pm