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Guanabacoa: Crónicas de mi familia
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Guanabacoa: Crónicas de mi familia

Guanabacoa: Crónicas de mi familia

Guanabacoa: Chronicles of My Family
Sara Gómez
Cuba
1966
13 min
Spotlight on Cuba
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Synopsis

In this autobiographical film, Sara Gómez takes us to Guanabacoa, a town southeast of Havana where her father’s family come from. Shots of historical colonial buildings, a Jewish cemetery and a Santería altar evoke the cultural influences feeding into streetlife at the time this film was made.

Gómez uses old portrait photographs and contemporary footage to introduce members of her family—one in which making music plays a cherished role. The film is dedicated to the director’s elderly godmother, the family’s moral compass. Her recollections and anecdotes from the pre-revolutionary days reveal a keen awareness of race and class.

The film concludes with a soundless scene at the kitchen table, in which the free and uncomplicated spirit of Gómez’s favourite aunt Berta is palpable. Guanabacoa is more than merely a family chronicle: this is an evocative portrait of the Black middle-class in pre-and post-revolutionary Cuba.

Guanabacoa: Crónicas de mi familia was digitally restored by Vulnerable Media Lab as part of the Sara Gómez Project.

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Tickets & Times
Sat, november 16
Part of Spotlight on Cuba: Sara Gómez 2
13:15 – 14:42
Tuschinski 5
Film fully subtitled in English

Wed, november 20
Part of Spotlight on Cuba: Sara Gómez 2
12:15 – 13:42
Eye: Cinema 2
Film fully subtitled in English
Credits
13 min
black and white
DCP
Spoken languages: Spanish
Director
    Sara Gómez
    Sara Gómez
Production
    Eduardo Rivero,
    Jesús Pascau,
    ICAIC
    Eduardo Rivero,
    Jesús Pascau,
    ICAIC
Cinematography
    Jos Tabío,
    Luis March
    Jos Tabío,
    Luis March
Editing
    Justo Vega
    Justo Vega
Music
    Fabio Landa
    Fabio Landa
Screenplay
    Sara Gómez
    Sara Gómez
Screening copy
    Vulnerable Media Lab
    Vulnerable Media Lab

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