Film Screening of Short Documentaries:

-- Introduced by director Gustavo Pérez Fernández; Q&A to follow
-- Coordinated by Laura Jaramillo (Program in Literature)

Works to be screened: 

Severo Secreto (work-in-progress)
(2015, 30 min, Cuba)
An extended visual-essay and research on the life of Severo Sarduy during his formative years in Cuba, his interest in black culture, performance, ritual, and experimental poetry in the early years of the revolution. Sarduy, an important member of the Tel Quel group, produced experimental texts in a variety of genres--from novels to poetry to critical essays--a body of work that reflects his constitutive role in the post-structuralist movement, as well as his centrality to Latin American letters.

Los ultimos dias de una casa / Last Days of a Home
(2008, 12 min, Cuba)
In this, the last house of the U.S colony in Cuba, a family watches its life go by and resists time and change. 

La octava isla / The Eighth Island
(2012, 22 min, Cuba)
Modesto San Gil is a poet through and through. At the age of six he left the Canary Islands to come to Cuba. His life is divided into two equal parts: the first is marked by the pilgrimage, the second by the silence of the trains.

Despertando a Quan Tri / Awakening Quan Tri
(2005, 12 min, Cuba)
The inhabitants of a small town do not remember the origin of its name.

Cost: Free and open to the public

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