Nicolás Guillén Landrián
2021En un barrio viejo
Nicolás Guillén Landrián
Affectionate, experimental short documentary that paints a mosaic of Cuba by focusing on a microcosmic "old neighborhood", where the country's personality slowly emerges through its various dualities: young and old, day and night, sound and silence, Christianity and Santería, civilian life and military presence, poverty and abundance.
In an Old Neighborhood
Taller de Línea y 18
Nicolás Guillén Landrián
This short film -one of the last made by the Afro-Cuban filmmaker before his definitive expulsion from ICAIC in 1972- alternates shots of the assembly of a vehicle designed for workers' transportation with the exploration of the conditions of workers' representation and political participation in an assembly held in the workshop. The radical disjunction between image and sound interrupts the logic (and etymology) in which the agglutinating force of the "assembly" and the operation of the "assembly" of the parts converge in the dissonant structure of this documentary.
Taller de Línea y 18
Retornar a Baracoa
Nicolás Guillén Landrián
Retornar a Baracoa focuses on a town, the oldest in Cuba, that remained accessible only by sea for more than three hundred years. While the documentary showcases government projects to build a radio station, a high school, an airport and a park, the images and voices of the residents leave the viewer with the feeling that all of this may be too little.
Retornar a Baracoa
Un reportaje sobre el puerto pesquero
Nicolás Guillén Landrián
The voice of a narrator shows the background of the port, its construction, the functions of each facility, the repair of fishing boats in the workshops and the creation of cooperatives and shipyards.
Un reportaje sobre el puerto pesquero
Desde la Habana ¡1969! Recordar
Nicolás Guillén Landrián
In this short Guillén Landrían weaves together the national revolutionary project with the lunar landing by Apollo 11, Tomás Gutierrez Aléa's iconic Memories of Underdevelopment (1968), advertisements, and the Beatles.
Desde la Habana ¡1969! Recordar
Un festival
Nicolás Guillén Landrián
Made as part of the Noticiero ICAIC Latinoamericano in celebration of the first Latin American University Games.It is a short film of ten short minutes, dominated by jazz music, which presents, through the typical structure of a report, the arrival of the delegates, their reception, the atmosphere of camaraderie, the training, the parade of participants, the words of Raul Castro at the inauguration, the sports competitions and the final party.
Un festival