Mendieta’s films are tethered to Cuba, sharing the same political undercurrents as the Cuban filmmakers of the decade prior, and are just as confrontational.
Salut Les Cubains captures post-revolution Cuba through Agnès Varda’s curious and optimistic lens. Made up of 1800 photographs taken on a trip to Cuba in 1963, this film-photo-essay shows a moment four years after the revolution in which the filmmaker searched for the cultural feeling at the time. What’s captured is a series of joyful... <a class="view-article" href="https://soundsandcolours.com/articles/cuba/salut-les-cubains-photographing-the-revolution-66402/">Read Article</a>