Screen/Society--AMI Showcase--Cuban Cinema Series--"Memories of Underdevelopment"

Wednesday, September 23, 2015 - 3:00pm to 4:45pm
Screen/Society--AMI Showcase--Cuban Cinema Series--"Memories of Underdevelopment"

Film Screening:

 

Memories of Underdevelopment / Memorias del Subdesarrollo
(Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, 1968, 97 min, Cuba, in English and Spanish w/ English Subtitles, B/W, DVD)

-- Introduced by Prof. Gustavo Furtado (Romance Studies)

Memories of Underdevelopment is a complex character study of alienation during the turmoil of social changes. The film is told in a highly subjective point of view through a fragmented narrative that resembles the way memories function. Sergio, a wealthy bourgeois aspiring writer, decides to stay in Cuba even though his wife and friends flee to Miami. The protagonist looks back over the changes in Cuba from the Castro revolution to the Cuban missile crisis, the effect of living in an underdeveloped country, and his relations with his girlfriends Elena and Hanna.

"This transfixing movie, with its mix of freewheeling dialogue scenes, still photo images and documentary footage, conjures up the uncertain mood of Havana just after the revolution." -- The Guardian

Cost: Free and open to the public

Sponsors: The Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI) and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS).

White 107 (White Lecture Hall)