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El camino de Santiago: Periodismo, cine y revolución (2013)

El camino de Santiago: Periodismo, cine y revolución (2013)

Documentary
Release Date: 2013, November 1
Directors: Fernando Krichmar, Alejandra Guzzo
Countries: Argentina, Cuba
Production: Grupo de Cine Insurgente, ICAIC, DOCA Documentalistas argentinos

Overview:

A tribute to Santiago Álvarez, a great innovator in the language of Cuban newsreel images, presented by the ICAIC over the course of thirty years. This unique figure in Latin American cinema is reconstructed. Told as a game of Chinese boxes (documentaries within documentaries, authors within authors, images within images), Álvarez's obsession is revealed to be identical to that of his disciples: to confront the reality of Cuba with other realities, staging aesthetic operations that are nevertheless political operations, always in favor of the Revolution.