Some reports on my activities at the Havana Film Festival, for readers of Spanish: Variedad temática desde la documentalística – a review of Memoria interrumpida. There are several reports on the Seminar, ¿Nuevo? ¿Cine? ¿Latinoamericano? The fullest is Hacia un nuevo concepto de Nuevo … Continue reading
Very pleased to share the news that my new film, ‘Interrupted Memory / Memoria interrumpida’, will receive its world premiere at the Havana International Film Festival, 5-15 December 2013, where I will also be participating in a panel discussion on … Continue reading
Musical and Other Cultural Responses to Political Violence in Latin America A really interesting one-day conference in Manchester on 6 December – and not just because I’ll be screening an extract from ‘Interrupted Memory‘.
Saturday 23rd November, Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge (advance registration required). http://www.latin-american.cam.ac.uk/events/chile-on-film Includes the first screening of my new video, ‘Chile: Divided Generations’ – a study of the politics of memory in Chile, extracted from a longer … Continue reading
Here’s a teaser for Interrupted Memory : [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/74300839#[/vimeo]
Interrupted Memory is the title of the film I’ve been shooting over the last three months in Argentina and Chile, a documentary about memory and politics which follows the course of people in the act of remembering in front of the … Continue reading
This is a revised version, incorporating feedback received. At the beginning of July, the EICTV, Cuba’s world renowned film school at San Antonio de los Baños was hit by a bombshell when the current director, the Guatemalan Rafael Rosal, announced … Continue reading
It doesn’t only happen in Turkey. Yesterday, while filming in Santiago, I had my first experience of tear gas. I went to film the latest student protest march against the heavily privatised education system which is a heritage of the … Continue reading
Here is a photograph of two Guevaras. With the death of Alfredo Guevara, the one on the right, at the age of 87, who was no relation to the Guevara on the left, Cuban cinema has lost its great champion. … Continue reading
Welsh hills covered in snow as the train snakes across country on the way back from Aberystwyth. Went there for a symposium on Cuban cinema, with scholars and filmmakers over from Havana, and other participants mainly based in UK universities; … Continue reading