Submerged 13. Alternative Cuban Cinema Festival. September 27-29, 2013. Florida Atlantic University. Special presentation of Memories of Development film by Miguel Coyula.

SEPTEMBER 27, 28, 29, 2013 | Florida Atlantic University (FAU).  

Performing Arts Bldg. (PA), RM 101

I'll have the pleasure to participate as Moderator for the Panel: Postnationalism, Post-Cinema before the projection of the film Memories of Overdevelopment. Special presentation by the film's director Miguel Coyula. Sunday, September 29, 2013, 4:00 to 6:00 pm.

Published by: Submerged 13. Alternative Cuban Cinema Festival. FAU.

Click here for the the Festival Program.

In the context of contemporary Cuban Cinema, what is “alternative”? Is it the same as “independent,” “experimental” or “underground”?“Submerged: Alternative Cuban Cinema Festival,” will present a selection of films that represent an alternative to institutionally sanctioned or sponsored media, as well as films that challenge conventional topics and forms. These are films dealing with characters, themes, points-of-view and formal elements not found in mainstream Cuban cinema. Some of these are “experimental” in that they challenge the limits of the medium, the production process, or the structure of the work. Others are “underground,” in that they function outside of what Juan Antonio García Borrero has called the “icaicentric.” These films connote something subversive that might make mainstream audiences uncomfortable; they are films that challenge expectations and cinematic traditions and that transcend the conditions that “official” visual culture might have imposed. Their audacity is relevant for contexts that go beyond the Cuban.

Submerged is a collaboration between FAU, Rice, Princeton, and Tulane universities. The films were selected and curated by Dean Luis Reyes, Cuban film journalist and visiting professor at the International School of Cinema and Television, San Antonio de los Baños. Cuban film director Miguel Coyula also contributed to the selection and compilation and will present his award-winning film Memories of Overdevelopment to close the festival on Sunday. Co-organizers from Rice University and FAU, Professors Luis Duno-Gottberg and Michael J. Horswell, edited an extensive scholarly program that will be available for sale at the festival.

“Submerged is a provocation that pushes us to think critically about a production –independent, alternative, subterranean and, most appropriately, underwater– as it exists in the process of revision and reconstruction in times when cinema is changing irreversibly due to new technologies, differences in the exhibition and distribution networks and the destabilization of concepts as germane to Cuban film as that of ‘national cinema.’” Javier Guerrero, Princeton University




This festival is free and open to the public . In addition to the screening of 18 Cuban films, there will be discussions and lectures by Cuban filmmakers and scholars of Latin American film.

All films are screened on FAU’s Boca Raton’s campus in PA 101 (Performing Arts Building) .

For more information, contact Dr. Michael J. Horswell ( Horswell@fau.edu )

Special presentation on Sunday, September 29 at 4:00 p.m.

Q&A following the screening with Director Miguel Coyula.

Trailer for Memorias del desarrollo: