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Indicios, del inscrito
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Indicios, del inscrito

Indicios, del inscrito

Traces of the Inscribed
Rafael Ramirez
Cuba
2017
4 min
Spotlight on Cuba
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Synopsis

This experimental short film Indicios, del inscrito, made as an assignment at the Cuban film academy EICTV, is based on the poem of the same name by José Kozer, a Cuban poet who is often categorized as belonging to the Latin American neo-baroque movement. This was a loosely associated group of poets who, from the 1970s onwards, preferred a hermetic and multidimensional approach to the conversational style that was common at the time.

Kozer introduces the film himself with a stanza from his poem, which centers on his grandfather, an old rabbi reading his daily passage from the bible. As his fingers follow the sentences of the scripture, he dies.

At this point, director Rafael Ramírez takes over with heavily edited images and intertitles, an associative whole that visually expresses Kozer’s parable. In this section, as in Kozer’s work, time and reality are subjective elements, and history merges seamlessly with the present.

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Sun, november 17
Part of Spotlight on Cuba: EICTV 2
14:15 – 16:13
Pathé City 3
Film fully subtitled in English

Tue, november 19
Part of Spotlight on Cuba: EICTV 2, Film screening followed by a panel talk.
17:15 – 19:37
Eye: Cinema 1
Film fully subtitled in English
Credits
4 min
black and white
DCP
Spoken languages: Spanish, English
Director
    Rafael Ramirez
    Rafael Ramirez
Production
    Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión - EICTV
    Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión - EICTV
Editing
    Rafael Ramirez
    Rafael Ramirez
Screening copy
    Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión - EICTV
    Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión - EICTV

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