This classic Cuban film centers on a love affair between two youth, and their struggle in the urban underground movement against dictator Fulgencio Batista in the late 1950s. Suspenseful and inspiring, it portrays the heroism of the Cuban youth and their sacrifices that brought the Revolution to fruition. 1987, 103 min, Color. Directed by Fernando Perez.
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The Itinerant Cinemascape
The Itinerant Cinemascape is a traveling film show based on a call for submissions looking for “experimental landscape portraits, adventurous geographic excavations, lo-tech neighborhood dramas, local documentary excursions, and heady pshychogeographies.” In an attempt to negotiate the multi-layered meaning of “place” the evening’s program with examine the flora and fauna samplings of Melinda Stone’s Audience Analysis #4, peer through the curtains at unsuspecting neighbors in Ken Paul Rosenthal’s Near Windows, and explore the landscape of cultural intrusion in Tony Gault’s Housesitting.
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Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election
Tonight’s proceeds will be used to send Whispered Media to the RNC Protest in NYC in the Fall.
Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election By Richard Ray Perez and Joan Sekler
Synopsis:
Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election is the riveting story about the battle for the Presidency in Florida and the undermining of democracy in America. Focusing on events leading up to election day and the attempt to count legally cast votes in the days that followed, Unprecedented examines a suspicious pattern of irregularities, injustices and voter purges all in a state governed by the winning candidate’s brother.