Salut les Cubains and Black Panthers by Agnès Varda
Across two documentary shorts from the 1960s, Agnès Varda traces the transnational exchange of revolutionary energy from two geopolitical centers: Havana, Cuba, and Oakland, California. Invited by the Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos in 1961, Varda captured thousands of images of post-revolutionary Cuba that she assembled into a kinetic work of photomontage. Years later, she used a 16mm camera to capture Black Panther meetings and demonstrations in the wake of Huey P. Newton’s 1968 arrest. Shown together, these two shorts revive the global solidarities of the 1960s and showcase the emergent political engagement of Varda’s reflexive documentary aesthetics.
Salut les Cubains, 1963, France, DCP, 29 min.
Black Panthers, 1968, France/US, DCP, 31 min.
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Date
Mar 12 7:00 PM –9:30 PM
Event Location
Walker Cinema
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Walker Art Center , Minnesota
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