Using morgue photos, newsreel footage, and a recording by Lena Horne, Cuban filmmaker Santiago Alvarez fired off ‘Now!’, one of the most powerful bursts of propaganda rendered in the 1960s.Read More »
Santiago Álvarez
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Santiago Álvarez – Now (1965)
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Santiago Álvarez – Mi hermano Fidel AKA My Brother Fidel (1977)
On the 82nd anniversary of the landing of José Martí and Máximo Gómez on the cost for the war of liberation of Cuba, Fidel Castro meets with Salustiano Leyva, who at 11 years old, received in his home a visit from Martí and Gómez.Read More »
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Santiago Álvarez – El tigre saltó y mató, pero morirá… morirá… AKA The Tiger Leaps and Kills, but it Will Die… It Will Die… (1973)
Cuban filmmaker Santiago Alvarez’s hurried response to the 1973 Chilean coup d’état rests upon the music of Victor Jara, the folk singer who was brutally murdered within days after Augusto Pinochet assumed power. Connecting events in Chile to other repressive police crackdowns throughout the world (and specifically to C.I.A. malfeasance), Alvarez calls for solidarity in a characteristically bravura choreography of text and image.Read More »