El camino de Santiago: Periodismo, cine y revolución
A tribute to Santiago Álvarez, a great innovator in the language of Cuban newsreel images, presented by the ICAIC over the course of thirty years. This unique figure in Latin American cinema is reconstructed. Told as a game of Chinese boxes (documentaries within documentaries, authors within authors, images within images), Álvarez's obsession is revealed to be identical to that of his disciples: to confront the reality of Cuba with other realities, staging aesthetic operations that are nevertheless political operations, always in favor of the Revolution.
Cast: Santiago Álvarez, Daniel Díaz Torres, Alfredo Guevara
El camino de Santiago: Periodismo, cine y revolución
A tribute to Santiago Álvarez, a great innovator in the language of Cuban newsreel images, presented by the ICAIC over the course of thirty years. This unique figure in Latin American cinema is reconstructed. Told as a game of Chinese boxes (documentaries within documentaries, authors within authors, images within images), Álvarez's obsession is revealed to be identical to that of his disciples: to confront the reality of Cuba with other realities, staging aesthetic operations that are nevertheless political operations, always in favor of the Revolution.
Creators and cast
- Directors
- Fernando Krichmar, Alejandra Guzzo
- Studio
- Grupo de Cine Insurgente, ICAIC, DOCA Documentalistas argentinos
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Audio languages
Spanish
Where to watch
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