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Isla
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Isla

Isla

Island
Marcos Pimentel
Cuba
2004
10 min
Spotlight on Cuba
Tickets & Times
Synopsis

“I navigate the memory of Cuba. Without maps, without compass, with a camera.” With these words, Marcos Pimentel begins his film, a second-year assignment at the Cuban film academy EICTV.

On 16mm and in static shots, the director captures the island, from derelict buildings to trembling stray dogs and from overcrowded buses to puppies having their first bath. The narrator talks dreamily in voice-over about the Cubans and their customs, and about the camera as an instrument to record and retrieve memories.

Not long after Isla, Pimentel began making documentaries in Brazil. Despite this change of location, it is not hard to see in this early film academy project a blueprint for his later work. An example is the documentary Skin, screened at IDFA in 2021, about the murals and graffiti in Belo Horizonte. Like Isla, this tranquil city symphony is an exercise in patience, but under the surface there is a community that cannot and will not be forgotten.

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Tickets & Times
Sun, november 17
Part of Spotlight on Cuba: EICTV 1
11:15 – 12:52
Pathé City 3
Film fully subtitled in English

Thu, november 21
Part of Spotlight on Cuba: EICTV 1
12:45 – 14:37
Pathé City 4
Film fully subtitled in English
Credits
10 min
color
DCP
Spoken languages: Spanish
Director
    Marcos Pimentel
    Marcos Pimentel
Production
    Rogelio Rodríguez for Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión - EICTV,
    Ayumu Akamine for Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión - EICTV
    Rogelio Rodríguez for Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión - EICTV,
    Ayumu Akamine for Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión - EICTV
Cinematography
    Marcos Pimentel
    Marcos Pimentel
Editing
    Marcos Pimentel
    Marcos Pimentel
Sound Design
    David Machado
    David Machado
Music
    Elvira Peña
    Elvira Peña
Screenplay
    Marcos Pimentel
    Marcos Pimentel
Screening copy
    Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión - EICTV
    Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión - EICTV
More from the program section Spotlight on Cuba
Spotlight on Cuba revisits the complex political history of Cuba. With a retrospective of the pioneering Afro-Cuban filmmaker Sara Gómez, next to a special curation of films made by students of the EICTV, the program will explore the paradoxes of our perception of Cuba as both revolutionary utopia and dystopia.
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Diana Montero
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