Por primera vez
Octavio Cortázar
1967 - Cuba - Noir & Blanc - 9'
Photography : José López
Sound : Ricardo Istueta, Eugenio Vesa
Editing : Caíta Villalón
Production : ICAIC
Octavio Cortázar
1967 - Cuba - Noir & Blanc - 9'
A mythic documentary describing the impressions of a group of peasants who discover film for the first time thanks to the Mobile Cinema Units created by the ICAIC which managed to project films in isolated areas where cinema had never been. We perceive the different emotions experienced by a public of country adults and children when they see a film for the first time in their lives: Chaplin’s Modern Times. Beyond the reflexive magic of the film, today we can notice the ambivalent relation that Castrist ideology had towards modernity and modernisation at the end of the sixties.
Photography : José López
Sound : Ricardo Istueta, Eugenio Vesa
Editing : Caíta Villalón
Production : ICAIC