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1/23 Cuban Film Series at MIT: Tuesdays in Jan.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charlie Welch)
Mon Jan 22 22:47:08 2001
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 22:46:54 -0500 (EST)
From: Charlie Welch <cwelch@MIT.EDU>
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Last film in the Series (The films are in the MIT library if you want to
see them).
Cuban Legacies: Slavery, Inequality, and Communism in the Colonial and
National Experience
In January 1959, Fidel Castro and his followers came to power in Cuba,
overthrowing the government of Fulgencio Batista. Since then,
controversy has raged about the merits of the Cuban Revolution. Has it
raised levels of literacy and medical care beyond those found in
countries of comaparable size and wealth? Have social improvements been
achieved at the expense of political liberty? The Elian Gonzalez affair
and US congressional debates over Cuba's trade status suggest that Cuba,
its revolution, and its leader still occupy a place in American and
world imagination out of all proportion to the country's size and
geopolitical
situation. These issues and others have important antecedents in Cuba's
colonial legacies of slavery and racial discord. The films in this IAP
series will provide historical perspectives on the Cuban colonial and
national experience.
Info: Jeffrey Ravel, 253-4451, ravel@mit.edu
"The Last Supper"
For most of the period of Spanish colonial domination in the Americas,
Cuba was a largely forested, mostly unmapped territory sparsely
inhabited by an indigenous population that had suffered serious
demographic setbacks at the beginning of European contact. With the end
of sugar production in Haiti ca. 1800, however, Europeans developed a
new interest in exploiting the island. The first film in the series,
THE LAST SUPPER, is based on an incident from late eighteenth-century
Cuban history involving a pious slaveholder who decides to instruct his
slaves in Christian humility by inviting them to participate in a
reenactment of the Last Supper.
Tue Jan 9, 07-10:00pm, Room 56-169
"Portrait of Teresa"
The second film in the series, PORTRAIT OF TERESA, is set in 1979,
almost two centuries later, after the Revolution of 1979 had acheived
political stability. It is a realistic account of a woman in
Revolutionary Cuba struggling with the demands of family and job in a
textile factory. The film shows the disintegration of her marriage
with compassion and authenticity, and focusses on the survival of
machismo and sexism in post-revolutionary society.
Tue Jan 16, 07-10:00pm, Room 56-169
"The New Cuban Crisis"
We'll view two short films documenting the status of socialism in Cuba
in the late 1990s. THE NEW CUBAN CRISIS explores the attitudes of
Cubans (inside the country and in exile) and Americans towards the US
embargo on Cuba. INSIDE CASTRO'S CUBA, the result of one filmmaker's
year-long sojourn in Cuba, relies on interviews with many Cubans
(including Castro), to document the tenacity of Castro's Revolution
forty years on.
Tue Jan 23, 07-10:00pm, Room 56-169
Dirrections: see http://whereis.mit.edu/bin/map?locate=bldg_56
Building 56 is behind building 66 which is on Ames Street, near the
Kendal Sq. Stop on the Red Line. (Sometime the door of Building 66 on
Ames St. is locked and you have walk around the building to the door
between buildings 56 and 66. Building 66 is shaped like a triangle with
one point on Ames St.
You can also get there by entering the main entrance at 77 Mass. Ave.
Walk straight ahead all the way to the end of the infinite corridor
take a left and the first right and keep walking until the room numbers
show 56-xxx
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