Radical Caribbeans/Los Caribes Radicales:

October 35, 2013 Tulane University New Orleans, Louisiana

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tymologica l ly, the word radical is derived from the Latin radicalis, to have roots. In that sense, this conference proposes to explore the roots of Caribbean life and culture, but from a radical perspective, invoking the words usage as a change or action relating or affecting the fundamental nature of something ; far-reaching or thorough. ather than approaching the greater Caribbean through its metropolises or mainstream critical apparatuses, a radical perspective of the Caribbean entails restaging our analytical perspectives to look at Caribbean life and culture through alternative prisms

that disconnect, reconnect and electrocute how the region has traditionally been framed. hus we welcome papers that follow rhizomatic trajectories, from and away from the city through the countryside, into the diaspora and maybe back again: how are those in these geographical, ideological, and cultural other intersecting spaces transforming the Caribbean radicalis? Our impetus is to push the boundaries of what and how we understand the Caribbean, beyond the glittering facade of the lettered city and its grounded denizens onto other landscapes that have always been in its shadow and the travelers that configure its outer parameters.

Radical Caribbeans / Los Caribes Radicales: Repositioning Caribbean Life

Wednesday, October 2nd

Pre-Conference Film Screening Submerged: Alternative Cuban Cinema Festival Ruinas y Espectros
This program, Ruinas y espectros, is a part of the traveling film festival Submerged: Alternative Cuban Cinema Festival, sponsored by Florida Atlantic University, Tulane University, Rice University, and Princeton University. Other series from the festival will be screened throughout the conference.
Model Town (2006)
Laimir Fano, 15mins. 102 J ones H all Tulane U niveristy S t . L ouis Room * Panel Chair S t . L ouis Room

6:00pm

The residents of Hershey express nostalgia for the cultural and economic splendor of their town in the past. A home is invaded by a swarm of bees. The residents confront the dilemma of fighting them or living with them. Meanwhile, a Hurricane approaches. With the closure of the sugar mill, the little town of Melaza (Molasses) is devastated, lifeless. Aldo and Monica are a young, married couple who search for a way to survive. By supporting each other, they try to save their world without losing their faith.

Armando Cap, 12mins.

Nos quedamos / We Stayed (2009)

Melaza / Molasses (2012)

Carlos Lechuga, 80mins.

Thursday, October 3rd

Panel 1: The Double Registers of Caribbean Radicalisms
University of Michigan

8:3010:15am

Federico Pous

The Persistence of Radical Politics: Questions on the Haitian Revolution and the Production of Knowledge On Radical Cyclogenesis in Cuba: The Case of Jos Rodrguez Feo (1944-1961) The Promise of Form: The Expropriation of Anarchist Practices in the Caribbean. Discussant

University of Texas, Austin

Csar A. Salgado

*Jaime Rodrguez Matos

University of Michigan

The Graduate Center, CUNY

Rolando Prez

Panel 1: Departures and Returns

American University

10:30am12:15pm

*Ana Mara Serra Jaime Mundo

Cuban Intellectuals in Spain: Enigmatic Memories and a Family of Strangers Bodega Dreams and the Reimagining of the Barrio El pasado del poder y el poder del pasado: Dinmicas del (des)encuentro en Une Tempte de Aim Csaire y Otra tempestadde Raquel Carri y Flora Lauten Postmodernidad en Cuba? Vas de entrada y salida

University at Albany, SUNY

Ernesto D. Fundora Castro

University of Miami

Cuauhtmoc Prez Medrano

Universitt Postdam

October 35, 2013 Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana

Thursday, October 3rd, cont.

10:30am12:15pm, cont

Panel 2: Troubling the Canon

Juan Pablo Rivera
Clark University S t . A nn Room S t . L ouis Room S t . A nn Room * Panel Chair S t . L ouis Room

Severo Sarduy y lo escatolgico Rhizomatic Influence via Pleasure and (Re)Production: Maryse Conds Lateral Connections to Philosophical Discourses Irony, Opacity, Modernity: Rosario Ferrs Maldito amor y otros cuento Foundational Frustrations: Incest in Cirilo Villaverdes Cecilia Valds

Louisiana State University

Gretchen Tressler

*Ronald Mendoza-de Jess

Emory University University of Minnesotta, Morris

Thomas Genova

1:303:15pm

Panel 1: Radical Contradictions of a Cuban Caribbean

*Ana Mara Dopico
New York University independent writer

Quin tir la bomba? The Rise of the Sn, Critical Mass Culture and the Radical Instability of the Republic Uprooting Radical: Cuba en Todas Partes, excepto el Caribe Cmo imaginar el Caribe cuando se est encerrado en una isla del Caribe? Una pelea cubana contra el realismo: letras para el siglo XXI

Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo Antonio Jos Ponte

independent writer

Lehman College and the Graduate Center, CUNY

Licia Fiol-Matta

Panel 2: Gender Matters

Marcelo Fajardo-Crdenas
Mary Washington University

Belinda Deneen Wallace

University of New Mexico University of Houston

Mara Antonia, Emelina y Niurka: Otredad, marginacin y rebelda del sujeto subalternizado It is only she that brings them to any life: Fashioning a Meta-Colonial Feminism in the Poetry of Dionne Brand Lydia Cabrera: antropologa y deseos prohibidos Forced Intimacies in Hispaniola: The Disentanglement of Eros, Polis and Reproduction in mile Olliviers Mre solitude (1987) and Marisela Riziks En el tiempo del olvido (1996)

*Mabel Cuesta Dixa Ramrez

Yale University

3:305:15pm

Panel 1: Dislocations of Race and Power

Dania Abreu-Torres
Trinity University

University of Wisconsin, Madison University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Tulane University

Marcela C. Guerrero Bryce Henson

*Annie Gibson

Dislocation and Allocation: The Case of the African Heritage Museum and the Space of Race in Puerto Rican Culture Caribbean Portraiture: Race, Memory, and Power in Contemporary Caribbean Art The Lusophone Caribbean: Hip-hop, Globalization and Culture in Salvador da Bahia Brazilian Capoeira and Cuban Baile de Man Rediscovering lo cubano through capoeira in Cuba

Radical Caribbeans / Los Caribes Radicales: Repositioning Caribbean Life

Thursday, October 3rd, cont.

Panel 2: The Northern Caribbean: Louisiana Connections
Tekrema Center for Art and Culture University of North Carolina

3:305:15pm, cont

Greer Goff Mendy Tanya Shields

Black Dance in Louisiana: Guardian of a Culture ConquistaLaura: Revisiting and Revising the Plantation in U.S. and Caribbean Cultural Production The Cocolos: A Cultural Bridge from San Pedro de Macors to Louisiana The Rocks Will be Melting: Political Horizins of Caribbean Sounds

* Panel Chair

October 35, 2013 Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana

S t . A nn Room B ourbon Room A stor B allroom I

Ramn Lantigua
Tulane University Rutgers University *Supriya Nair Tulane University

Carter Mathes

Panel 3: Peripheral Subjectivities

University of Wisconsin, La Crosse Sam Houston State University

Jos Rubio-Zepeda *April Shemak

UC-Irvine

Race and the Transnational Subject in the Works of Junot Daz The Leper Colony as Empire and Revolution in the Americas Acerca de La inutilidad de Eduardo Lalo Confessing Exile in the Narrative of the Cuba (Re)encuentro

Ivette Hernndez-Torres Jenna Leving Jacobson

University of Chicago

Special Presentation by Plenary Speaker

5:30pm

The assasination of Carlos Muniz Varela in Puerto Rico marks the turning point in the Cuban civil wars of the 1970s, but is also part of a broader context in which the Caribbean becomes the main scenario where violence and ideology collude, in order to re-inscribe the islands as undercover proxies for political interventions. Professor Jos Quiroga was born in Havana, Cuba, and grew up in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He received a B.A. in English and Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures from Boston University, and a Ph.D. from Yale University in Spanish American Literature. Before joining the Emory faculty in 2002, he taught at The George Washington University and held visiting appointments at Columbia, Berkeley, Johns Hopkins and the University of Maryland. His research interests are contemporary Latin American and Latino literatures and cultures, gender and queer studies, contemporary Cuba and the Caribbean, and Latin American poetry. He is the author of six books, most recently Mapa Callejero (Buenos Aires: Eterna Cadencia, 2010), Law of Desire: A Queer Film Classic (Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp, 2009), and Cuban Palimpsests (University of Minnesota Press, 2005). His many essays and articles have appeared in academic journals and the press. He is co-editor at Palgrave Macmillan of the book series New Directions in Latino American Cultures . He is currently working on the edited collection The Havana Reader and a book on dissident practices in Cuba and Argentina, for which he received a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Undercover Caribbean Wars, 1976-1981 Jos Quiroga, PhD.

Reception in Astor Ballroom I

7:009:00pm

Friday, October 4th

8:3010:15am

Panel 1: Travelling to Cuba, Travelling through Cuba

University of California, Berkeley

Daylet Dominguez
University of Florida

Travel Literature and Knowledge in 19th Century Cuba Viajeros al Caribe: El mar de las lentejas de Antonio Bentez Rojo Revolutionary Tourism or the Persistence of Bourgeoisness

* Panel Chair

S t . L ouis Room S t . A nn Room S t . L ouis Room S t . A nn Room

Antonio Cardentey
Virginia Commonwealth University

*Duanel Daz

Panel 2: Mobilities and Dislocations

Louisiana State University

Andrea E. Morris

*Bridgette W. Gunnels
Emory University

Sewanee: The University of the South The George Washington University

Betsy A. Sandlin

Randi Gray Kristensen

Visitors, Tourists or Transnationals? Emigr Return Visits in Recent Cuban Narrative (2000-13) The Only Way Out is In: The Loci of Home and Belonging in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Daz The Displacement of Place: Alternative Sites of Identification in the Poetry of Rane Arroyo The Masks of Class and the Failure of the Humanitarian Impulse in Diana McCauleys Dog-Heart

10:30am12:15pm

Panel 1: Critical Roots

Joo Felipe Gonalves
Tulane University

A Caribbean Counterpoint: Radical Hybridity in Roberto Fernndez Retamar and Edouard Glissant Calibn contraataca: Ensayando The Tempest Between Errance and Essence: French Antillean thought and the Critique of Diaspora Trotsky subversivo: ausencias y presencias en el imaginario insular cubano post revolucionario

University of Texas, Austin University of Memphis Case Western Reserve University

Samuel Ginsburg

Andrew M. Daily

*Damaris Puales-Alpzar

Panel 2: Radicalisms
Mara Alejandra Aguilar Dornelles
Washington University in St. Louis University of California, Davis Xavier University of Louisiana University of Mary Washington

Sophie Sapp

*Elizabeth Manley

Ana Garca Chichester

Freedom for All, Citizenship for None: Heroism and Racial Equality from Black Caribbean Leaders Vision Radical Environmentality: The Haitian Revolution and Territories of Resistance Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: Women Governors and Joaqun Balaguers Doce Aos in The Dominican Republic Print Media and Political Bias: The Portrayal of Gender and Race in Cuban Anti-Independence Newspapers Don Junpero and El Moro Muza

Radical Caribbeans / Los Caribes Radicales: Repositioning Caribbean Life

Friday, October 4th, cont.

12:30pm1:30pm

Book Presentation
Conference participants will give a brief and informal presentation of their recently published books during the lunch hour. Attendees are welcome to bring their lunch to enjoy during the presentations.
Annie McNeill Gibson Odette Casamayor Cisneros Andrea E. Morris Mabel Cuesta Damaris Puales-Alpzar
S t . A nn Room S t . L ouis Room * Panel Chair S t . A nn Room

Post-Katrina Brazucas: Brazilians in New Orleans (UNO Press, 2012) Utopa, distopa e ingravidez: reconfiguraciones cosmolgicas en la narrativa cubana postsovitica (Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2013) Afro-Cuban Identity in Post-Revolutionary Novel and FIlm: Inclusion, Loss, and Cultural Resistance (Bucknell University Press 2012). Cuba post-sovietica: un cuerpo narrado en clave de mujer. (Editorial Cuarto Propio, 2012) Escrito en cirlico: el ideal sovitico en la cultura cubana posnoventa (Santiago de Chile: Editorial Cuarto Propio, 2012)

1:303:30pm

Panel 1: Raz, rizoma, desarbolar: Poema, texto, poltica y radicalidad en el Puerto Rico del siglo XX
University of Maryland, College Park

Sebastin Barts

La mirada del pelcano. Hacia una poltica de lo sensible en Tuntn de pasa y grifera de Luis Pals Matos La tonada ltima: estilo tardo en Julia de Burgos La aluci(nacin) en las obras de Luis Antonio Rosario Quiles sobre Vctor Campolo Reincencin y radicalizacin del ser insular en La novelabingo de Manuel Ramos Otero De cara al mar: Eros, poltica y recorridos en La querencia de Angelamara Dvila Discussant

State University of New York at Stony Brook University (SUNY)

Lena Burgos-Lafuente

University of Michigan

Mara Pastor

Ouachita Baptist University

Margarita Pintado

*Juan Carlos Quintero-Herencia

University of Maryland, College Park

Jaime Rodrguez Matos

University of Michigan

Panel 2: Bodies, Displacements, Identities

Ronald Cummings
Rutgers University

Marron Assemblages: Rethinking Maroonage as Queer Relationality Back to the Roots: A Radical and Transnational Approach to the End of Modern Slavery What were the UMAP camps?

University of Arkansas at Little Rock

*Laura Barrio-Vilar Joseph Tahbaz

Dartmouth College

October 35, 2013 Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana

Friday, October 4th, cont.

Panel 3: Differential Localities
Rutgers University University of Wisconsin, Madison CUNY, The Graduate Center

Jahaira Arias

Natalie L Belisle

Denying the Monte: Landscape and National Imaginary in the 19th Century Dominican Republic Strange Insularity: The Neighborhood, the Island, and Literary Locality in Pedro Antonio Valdezs Novelas Barriales Ruins in a Vulnerable Time Radicals and Radicalis: The Evolution of the Cuban-American Community in South Florida

* Panel Chair

B ourbon Room C af I stanbul 2372 S t . C laude A venue

*Agustn De Jess

Alessandro Badella
University of Genoa

4:30pm

Film Screening Submerged: Alternative Cuban Cinema Festival Postnacionalismo, Poscinemtico

Memorias del desarrollo / Memories of development (2010)
Miguel Coyula, 112mins.

A Cuban intellectual abandons the Revolution and underdevelopment only to find that he does not fit in the overdeveloped world. A character study of an apolitical, solitary man without defined ideologies who confronts old age, desire, and the impossibility of belonging anywhere. The narration is a collage of memories and daydreams in which fiction, animation, and documentary elements converge and are manipulated and assembled in the same way memory works. Based on the homonymous novel by Edmundo Desnoes.

Miguel Coyula (Cuba, 1977). A graduate of the International School of Cinema and Television (EICTV) in San Antonio de los Baos, Cuba with a specialty in directing. He is a member of the UNEAC (National Union of Cuban Writers and Artists) and of the National Video Movement. Some of his recent literary works include the short stories Al fin, el fin; the essays Estoy tratan-do de decir que and Cine independiente, Cine dependiente; and the novel Mar rojo, mal azul. In 2001 he received a scholarship to study at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute and a Guggenheim fellowship in 2009. In 2010 he returned to Havana where he is now working on his third feature film. He also works as a freelance cameraman, conducts workshops and gives lectures on digital cinema.

The screening will take place at Caf Istanbul (in the Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Avenue). Director Q&A to follow. Shuttle transportation to the event will be provided. Shuttle pick-up time at 4:05PM from the Astor Crowne Plaza Hotel.

Reception at Fatoush Restaurant, next to Caf Istanbul (in the Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Avenue)

7:00pm

Radical Caribbeans / Los Caribes Radicales: Repositioning Caribbean Life

Saturday, October 5th

9:0010:45am

Panel 1: Literature, Identity and Side B

University of Maryland, College Park

Jason A. Bartles

Calvert Caseys Politics of Going Unnoticed in the Cuban Revolution Ms lla de Miami y La Habana: The Shifting Locus of Cuban and Cuban-American Identity in Literature Palabras dichas, pliegos escritos: Tiempo histrico y tempo ficcional en Vivir en Candonga (1966) de Ezequiel Vieta Radical Caines: Cuban Contemporary Writing and the Legacy of Guillermo Cabrera Infante

* Panel Chair

October 35, 2013 Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana

S t . L ouis Room S t . A nn Room S t . L ouis Room S t . A nn Room

Gabriel Ignacio Barreneche

Rollins College

Washington University in St. Louis University of Wisconsin, La Crosse

*Gonzalo Aguiar Omar Granados

Panel 2: Radical Imperfections in the Cinema of Sara Gmez

Odette Casamayor Cisneros
University of Connecticut Princeton University

From and Inside the Revolution With the Wretched of the Earth Beyond the Culture of Poverty

Lizabel Mnica

*Adrian Lpez Denis

University of Delaware

11:00am1:00pm

Panel 1: Geographies of Guantnamo: The Province and the Naval Base

Tulane University University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne

Jana Lippman

Wheres Guantanamo in Granma? Stories and Silences in Cuban State-Run Media Objects on the Island may be Closer than they Appear: Examining the Relative Invisibility of Guantanamo Bay in Cuban Discourse Writing from Guantnamo: The Province and the Naval Base Euphemism and Empire: The Negotiation of Meaning in Guantnamo and Ceuta

Dara Goldman

*Esther Whitfield
Brown University

Christina Civantos
University of Miami

Panel 2: Transcaribbean Caribbeanisms

Lomarsh Roopnarine
Jackson State University

City College of New York

Mariel Acosta

Ernesto Mercado-Montero
University of Texas, Austin

University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras

Sandra Pujals

*Anne Garland Mahler

University of Arizona

Black Radicalism in the United States Virgin Islands: Constitutional Conundrum and Secession A Case for Anarchism in Radical Labor Politics in the Late XIX and Early XX Century Dominican Republic Black Carib Militias and Inter-Imperial Rivalries in Central Americas Age of Revolutions Dont Fear the Devil Just Because Hes Red: Transnationalism, Communist Internationalism and Cultural Modernity in the Caribbean Basin Negros y policias norteamericanos in a Tricontinental Spotlight: A Retrospective on the Global South Imaginary

Saturday, October 5th, cont.

5:30pm

Mariposa Ancestral Memory, media performance by Raul Moarquech Ferrera-Balanquet at BE.BOP 2013. Curated By Alanna Lockward. Ballhaus Naunynstrae, Berlin, Germany. Photo by Wagner Carvalho. Courtesy Of Art Labour Archives.

Mariposa Ancestral Memory is an interdisciplinary project integrating a multimedia installation, a digital single channel video, and a media performance. The project is the result of an extensive investigation about the presence of African descendant writing in the Caribbean (Haitian Vv, Anafourana and Palo MonteKongo), Africana Americana Aesthetics, and Afro Caribbean Queer and Erotic Decoloniality. Mariposa Ancestral Memory connects the presence of African Caribbean writing, US Latina/o migration, the Atlantic Slave Trade, the Mariel Exodus, the imprisonment of Angela Davis in the 1970s, the Black Panther Movement, homophobia, racism, Maya and Afro Caribbean Queer spiritualities, all interwoven with the life experiences of the artist while growing up in revolutionary Cuban and as an exile in the United States after 1980. Please dress comfortably. At the artists request, seating for the performance will be on the floor. Raul Moarquech Ferrera-Balanquet (Havana, Cuba, 1958) MFA, University of Iowa, 1992. Interdisciplinary artist, writer, curator and Fulbright scholar. Ph.D. Candidate, Romance Studies Department, Duke University. Ferrera-Balanquet has exhibited in many national and international venues, including, most recently the Queen Museum of Art, New York City and the Nasher Museum, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina His writings have been widely published internationally and most recently have appeared in IDEA arts + society, #39, 2011, Cluj, Romania. As executive curator of Arte Nuevo InteractivA, Ferrera-Balanquet has organized numerous art, video and new media exhibitions, among them Arte Nuevo InteractivA: Bienal de las Nuevas Artes, Merida_MX (five edition 2001-2009) and Traslocalidades en Movimiento, video art, Centro Cultural de Espaa en El Salvador, San Salvador, El Salvador (2008). In addition to a Fulbright Fellowship, Ferrera-Balanquet has been awarded grants from The Prince Claus Foundation, FOECAY, US/ Mexico Cultural Fund, The Australian Network of Art and Technology, the National Endowment for the Arts and The Lyn Blumenthal Video Foundation.

Mariposa Ancestral Memory by Raul Moarquech Ferrera-Balanquet

Special Performance

T he N ew M ovement T heater 1919 B urgundy S treet

Reception at Art Space Michalopoulos Warehouse (513 Elysian Fields)

7:009:00pm

Radical Caribbeans / Los Caribes Radicales: Repositioning Caribbean Life

Submerged: Alternative Cuban Cinema Festival

These films will be running concurrently with the conference panels in the Bourbon Room with the following schedule:

Thursday, October 3rd

Mitologa Tropical
De agua dulce / From Fresh Water (2011)
Damin Sainz Eduardo, 14mins B ourbon Room B ourbon Room B ourbon Room

8:3010:15am

As night falls, Kinkn decides to fish in the river that runs through his town. It is his daily routine, his work, but also, his refuge. After dark, the turbulent waters of the contaminated river are revealed to relate to the dark past of the fisherman, Kinkn.

Reconstruyendo al hroe / Twenty-six mestiza mothers give their testimonies about the violent situations in Reconstructing the Hero which their children have been victims. (2009) Javier Castro, 5mins. Juan de los muertos / Juan of the Dead (2011)

Alejandro Brugus, 92mins

In the midst of what official media refers to as isolated incidents provoked by USbacked dissidents, Havana is filled with flesh-eating zombies and our hero, Juan, comes to the rescue. Realizing that he can defeat the zombies by bashing in their brains, he develops a business model: " we kill your beloved".. at a reasonable price. The new business is at the heart of this delightful zombie comedy... with a surprising ending.

Mitologa Tropical II
Molinas Ferozz (2010)

10:30am12:15pm

Jorge Molina, 72mins.

In the Cuban countryside, Miranda, a beautiful teenager, lives in an isolated corner of the mountains with her mother Dolores, a forty-something, attractive widow. They are helped by the nearest neighbor, Inocencio, a middle-aged, muscular woodcutter who is the brother of Lucio, Doloress deceased husband. In the solitude of the night, haunted by a shape-shifting predator and the disturbing memories of her evil grandmother, Miranda and her mother, moved by desire and passion, vie for Inocencios attention. Based on Little Red Riding Hood by Charles Perrault. [Explicit nudity
and sexuality]

Electrones Libres
El patio de mi casa / My Homes Patio (2007)

1:303:15pm

Patricia Ramos, 13mins.

In the courtyard of a house, a mother dreams about a red couch, but as she wakes up, she has to wash a lot of dirty laundry. Her children play with water, and the grandmother, asleep in her chair, is always falling down. The grandfather comes in and out of the action. An electricity worker repairs some wires and watches the scene from above. An analysis of the creative process. Immobility, inertia, incapacity. Can they be broken? An apathetic coach, a possessive and independent one-legged adolescent, a child with Downs Syndrome who sometimes repeats what he hears, another with disabilities in his legs and a dependent attitude, and a fourth child who appears to have no physical challenges but who for some reason refuses to talk. Five lives that intersect during a day at the pool, where they inevitably will clash, and then reunite, for the simple reason that they all belong to the same group.

Windows XY (2008)
Yimit Ramrez, 7mins.

Papalotes / Kites (2010)

Ariagna Fajardo, 15mins.

Carlos Machado Quintela, 65mins.

La Piscina / The Pool (2011)

October 35, 2013 Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana

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Friday, October 4th

8:3010:15am

Las Polticas de la Memoria

Damian Sanz Eduardo, 23mins.

Close up (2008)

Things seen and heard one Saturday night in the park on G Street, in the Vedado neighborhood of Havana. A group of Cuban men, aged between 20 and 30 years and born in the 80s, discuss common issues to their generation and the current Cuban reality.

Aram Vidal Alejandro, 20mins.

De generacin / De-generation (2009)

B ourbon Room B ourbon Room B ourbon Room

La escritura y el desastre / A young man attempts to isolate himself from his social environment and finds Writing and Disaster refuge in an automobile with his books, invents a driver who drives him around and becomes his alter ego; A false road movie, a dreamlike trip through the city of (2006)
Raydel Araoz Valds, 52mins.

Havana in search of a grip on reality.

10:30am12:15pm

La Persistencia de un Sueo
La segunda muerte del hombre til (2010)
Adrin Replansky, 7mins.

Obsolete machines march into a new era of use and disciplined diversion, in this fable that seeks to draw the lines of a post-utilitarian ethic. A documentary about the process of marginalization, repression and denial of the gay community during the first two decades of the Cuban Revolution, through the eyes and voice of Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas. Revolution is about the musical group Los Aldeanos, a Hip Hop underground group that leads the vanguard of the genre. The film shares the points of view and criteria of its members, Aldo and Bian.

Seres extravagantes / Odd People Out (2004)

Manuel Zayas, 54mins.

Maykel Pedrero, 50mins.

Revolution (2009)

Saturday, October 5th

9:00am

Ruinas y Espectros
Model Town (2006)
Laimir Fano, 15mins.

The residents of Hershey express nostalgia for the cultural and economic splendor of their town in the past. A home is invaded by a swarm of bees. The residents confront the dilemma of fighting them or living with them. Meanwhile, a Hurricane approaches. With the closure of the sugar mill, the little town of Melaza (Molasses) is devastated, lifeless. Aldo and Monica are a young, married couple who search for a way to survive. By supporting each other, they try to save their world without losing their faith.

Armando Cap, 12mins.

Nos quedamos / We Stayed (2009)

Melaza / Molasses (2012)

Carlos Lechuga, 80mins.

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