• En un barrio viejo



Landrián Restored



Prerecorded Video Introduction

  • Dean Luis Reyes

    Dean Luis Reyes is a Cuban critic and journalist and a guest lecturer at the Chavón School of Design (Dominican Republic).

  • Lázaro González

    Lázaro González is a filmmaker from Cuba, a doctoral candidate in the UC Berkeley Department of Film & Media, and the guest curator of Cuban Cinema without Borders.

Through the 1960s and 1970s, Nicolás Guillén Landrián, the first Black director to work within Cuba’s national film institute, created a remarkable body of work. Balancing lyricism with formal invention, humor, and social critique, his films are reflections of everyday life for ordinary Cubans, with a particular focus on Afro-Cuban lives. Censored, banned, and buried in the Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos (ICAIC) archives for many years, his work has nonetheless survived the attempts of the state to write him out of history. Featuring the California premiere of new restorations, this program takes us from Landrián’s old neighborhood in Havana to the downtown Miami community where he continued to create until the end. 

—Kate MacKay

Films in this Screening

En un barrio viejo

Nicolás Guillén Landrián, Cuba, 1963

FILM DETAILS 
Language
  • Spanish
  • with English subtitles
Print Info
  • B&W
  • DCP
  • 9 mins
source
  • Altahabana Films

Los del baile

Nicolás Guillén Landrián, Cuba, 1965

FILM DETAILS 
Language
  • Spanish
  • with English subtitles
Print Info
  • B&W
  • DCP
  • 6 mins
source
  • Altahabana Films

Ociel del Toa

Nicolás Guillén Landrián, Cuba, 1965

FILM DETAILS 
Language
  • Spanish
  • with English subtitles
Print Info
  • B&W
  • DCP
  • 16 mins
source
  • Altahabana Films

Coffea Arábiga

Nicolás Guillén Landrián, Cuba, 1968

FILM DETAILS 
Language
  • Spanish
  • with English subtitles
Print Info
  • B&W
  • DCP
  • 17 mins
source
  • Altahabana Films

Inside Downtown

Nicolás Guillén Landrián, Jorge Egusquiza Zorrilla, Cuba, 2001

FILM DETAILS 
Language
  • Spanish and English
  • with English subtitles
Print Info
  • Color
  • DCP
  • 30 mins
source
  • Gretel Alfonso
source
  • Jorge Egusquiza Zorrilla

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