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Juanamaria Cordones-Cook: Full List of Documentaries & Screenings
JUANAMARIA CORDONES-COOK
DOCUMENTARIES and SCREENINGS:
Summary of screenings
(0ver 200 screenings in national and international venues):
(A) in Cuban National
Television, in Canal Educativo 2,
and in Cuban International Television,
Cubavisión
Internacional, chain, in USA TV, and on TV in Uruguay.
(B) at foreign academic institutions: Ludwig Foundation [2018]; Caguayo
Foundation (2018); UNEAC [2011; 2012; 2013; 2014; 2015; 2017;
2018]; the Université
de La Sorbonne, Paris, France [2016]; the Université
Lumiere de Lyon 2, France [2016]; the Universidad de la República,
Montevideo, Uruguay [2015]; the University of Humboldt, Berlin, Germany
[2014]; The Universidad de Oriente, Santiago de Cuba
[2014]; Universidad de Cartagena,
Colombia [2014]; Universitat de Barcelona, Spain (2014]; the Universidad
de La Habana [2014]; the Hebrew University of Jerusalem [2013].
(C) at national academic institutions: Massachusetts College of Art and
Design [2016]; Albany-SUNY
[2016]; University of Harvard [2015]; University of Michigan [2012, 2013,
2014, 2015]; University of Missouri [2012, 2014]; Truman State University
[2014]; University of Southern California [2014]; Washington University
[2013].
(D) at
national and international museums, art galleries, academic or public
cultural events: Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana [2014, 2015, 2016,
2018];
Fábrica de Arte
Cubano (2015),
Havana; Casa de las Américas, Havana;
Diversidad Cultural en el Caribe, (2015, 2017);
International Book Fair, Havana [2014, 2016]; “Encuentro: Universo
Avellaneda”, in UNEAC, Havana [2014]; “4ta. Conferencia Internacional de
Estudios Afro-Latinoamericanos", Negritud in Cartagena,
Colombia [2014]; International conference by the
Centre dona i literature:
“Congreso de Literatura y Cultura femenina Hispánica”,
at Instituto de Literatura y Lingüística,
Havana [2014]; San Francisco Public Library [2014];
Ediciones Vigía Books: A
Visual History,” RedLine Gallery, at the
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Special Collections Library
[2014]; Fundación
Caguayo, in Santiago de Cuba [2014]; MACA, at UNEAC in Havana [2014];
Fábrica de Arte,
Havana [September 2014] ; Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, in
conjunction with an art show DRAPETOMIA, curated by Harvard University
[2014]; at
Center for Cuban Studies in New York [2013].
(E) at international film festivals at:
Festival Internacional de Cine de Gibara
[2018]; Festival Internacional de
Documentales Santiago
Álvarez In
Memoriam, in
Santiago de Cuba (March 2017); San Francisco Cuban film Festival [2015];
St. Louis Film Festival [2014]; The New
Latin American Film Festival in Havana [2013,
2014]; Latin American Studies Association
Film Festival [2013]; New Hope
Film Festival, Pennsylvania (2013); Kansas City [2013].
(F) at mini-festivals around
my documentaries:
[1]
At the
Festival Internacional de Poesía
in Havana, Cuba, nine films were screened.
(May 2016)
[2] Sponsored by the
The Turquino Project,
in the Bay Area of San Francisco July 24th-27th,
2015, eleven films were screened at: The
Niebyl-Proctor Library,
6501 Telegraph Ave.,
Oakland, CA [July 24th,
2015] (6 films); Specs,
12 William Saroyan Place, in San Francisco’s North Beach, (2 films);
bookstore Bird & Beckett,
by Eric Whittington (3 films).
[3] Sponsored by Fundación
Caguayo at the 2015 Biennial of Art in Havana, at Wilfredo Lam’s monument
(June 2015).
(G) for classes and cultural
events at national and international universities and cultural
institutions:
- Professor René
Clementine Lucien at Université de la Sorbonne,
Paris. (2016)
- Professor Sandra Hernéndez
at Université de Lyon Deux, France.
- Professor Alejandra Aguilar at the University at Albany-SUNY.
- Professor Dominique
Diard at the Université de Caen, France.
- Professor Ruth Behar, the Victor Perera Collegiate Professor of
Anthropology at University of Michigan.
- Professor Rafael Duharte and his colleagues at the Universidad de
Oriente, Santiago de Cuba.
The
Ludwig Fundation in Cuba is
screening my Cuban documentaries in a course on
Cuban Arts and Culture for students from
The Tisch School of the Arts
(NYU).
- MU Seminar on Afro-Caribbean Arts (2016).
- Casa de las Américas, in Havana, screened three films on
the most prominent contemporary Cuban artists: Mendive, Diago, and Rodríguez
Olazábal and inaugurated the international event
Diversidad Cultural en el Caribe,
with exhibits from the three artists (2015).
- Boone County Public Library (April 2016).
- MU Osher Lifelong Learning (2015).
-
Summer Film
Series at the Centre for Cuban Studies-New York, screened my documentaries
(2013).
-MU courses on
Afro-Cuban and Afro-Caribbean arts and culture (2011 to the present)
(H) Some of my
documentaries are being published with books on the authors or artists I
present in the films, such as: Georgina Herrera (Cimarroneando
con G.H, 2014); Nancy Morejón
(La silla dorada,
2015)
Documentaries (direction
and production):
* Fátima Patterson: Raza, género
y teatro. / Race, Gender, and
Theater
(2019), ca. 44 minutes long with English
subtitles. Direction and production by Juanamaría Cordones-Cook.
* Zurbano and his Racial
Consciousness /Zurbano y su consciencia racial
(2019), ca. 44
minutes
long with English subtitles. Direction and production by Juanamaría Cordones-Cook.
Comment: presentation of the oral
history of Roberto Zurbano
Torres (San Nicolás de Bari, Cuba, 1965),
a prominent
cultural critic and
literary scholar who has
been an activist and a leader in major cultural Cuban institutions. In
his testimony, Zurbano lucidly addresses racial issues while he guides us
through the development of his intellectual and racial consciousness
starting with his humble origins in a small village.
In the process he
articulates reflections on the
socio-historical and cultural role blacks played in the development of the
nation, and on the
opportunities provided by the 1959 Cuban revolution that did not
effectively address racism. Zurbano argues that
in Cuba there is racism
and neo-racism that
have been silenced
in public discourse. He
calls for the development of a
black
consciousness,
for an open discussion on race and on the roots of racism as a
construction of domination, and for a dialogue between the civil society,
the government, and the intelligentsia. In addition
he candidly discusses the
heated national and international
debate resulting from the New York Times publication of his editorial
article “For Blacks in Cuba, the Revolution Hasn’t Begun” (March
23, 2013), and his subsequent demotion in
Casa de las Américas.
He strongly defends his right as a free citizen to talk about race, racism
and neo-racism in Cuba. This testimony is enriched by hip-hop music by
Obsesión.
*
Ifá
in Rodríguez
Olazábal:
Master of Ancient Secrets / Ifá
en Rodríguez
Olazábal:
Dueño
de antiguos secretos
(2018),
ca. 27 minutes
long
with English subtitles. Direction and production by Juanamaría Cordones-Cook. Comment:
Guided tour of the extraordinary art exhibit by Santiago Rodríguez Olazábal,
Ímóye: Wisdom and Understanding
presented at the University of Missouri during the international
conference Afro-Cuban Artists: A
Renaissance (April 2016). Considering Rodríguez Olazábal’s work a tribute to the
memory and spirituality of his ancestors and that it is infused with
cryptic iconography,
we present the artist explaining the religious symbols in this exhibition.
* The Many Natalias Bolívar:
Art, Utopia, and Religion / Las muchas Natalia Bolívar: Arte, utopía y religión
(2018), ca. 57 minutes with English subtitles. Direction and production by
Juanamaría
Cordones-Cook. Comment: presentation of the many social and cultural roles
lived by Natalia Bolívar
(Havana 1934), a direct descendant of the Cuban Simon Bolívar family. A deeply patriotic aristocrat
with a revolutionary calling, she joined the
Directorio Revolucionario for
the Cuban Revolution and was arrested and tortured by the Batista regime.
After 1959, Natalia actively collaborated with the new order in numerous
cultural spheres. She was in charge of restoring, reorganizing, and
directing the Museo Nacional de
Bellas Artes. She also founded and directed the Numismatic Museum of
the Banco Nacional de Cuba, as
well as the Napoleonic Museum, in Havana. A natural and powerful cultural
advocate and promoter, Natalia has been a frequent consultant for
filmmaking, film festivals, exhibits, books, plays, and theater
performances. A disciple and
follower of Lydia Cabrera, she became a highly knowledgeable ethnographer
and practitioner of Afro Cuban religions who Reynaldo González
fondly calls “the Supreme Witch.” She has published numerous books on
religious issues that have become instant best-sellers. In addition, she
writes poetry that has been published by
Ediciones Vigía in beautiful books designed by
Rolando Estévez.
At a young age Natalia received rigorous artistic training in Havana and
New York, and later on became a naïve visual artist whose work enriches
the entire film. The presentation of this essential figure of Cuban
culture and history is complemented by the insightful comments of Eusebio
Leal, Nancy Morejón,
Choco, Santiago Rodríguez
Olazábal,
Guillermo Jiménez,
Jorge Perugorría,
Reynaldo González,
and Monseñor
Carlos Manuel de Céspedes.
The music has been created for this film by Juan Antonio Leyva and Magda
Rosa Galván.
https://youtu.be/z_ZU9WhhwPA
Screenings:
2018: --Premiere at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, in Havana.
Presented by Nancy Morejón
(Feb. 27th).
--Fundación Caguayo, Santiago de Cuba. Presented by
Teresa Melo and Nancy Morejón
(March 17).
--“Ámbitos de
interpretación de las culturas africanas contemporáneas”
Conference, at UNEAC, Havana. Presented by
Gladys García
Pérez
(March 26th).
--“Poesía
en movimiento”
at the
Asociación
de Escritores, at UNEAC, in Havana, accompanied by readings of
poetry from Haití,
fuego sagrado, by Natalia Bolívar
(April 20th). Presented by Alex Pausides and Nancy
Morejón
(April 20th).
--Ludwig Foundation, in Havana, Cuba (April 18)
--Festival
Internacional de Cine de Gibara 2018, Cuba (Julio 1-7).
*
Africa in Modern Cuban
Dance: Eduardo Rivero /Africa en la danza moderna cubana: Eduardo Rivero
(2017), ca. 42 minutes
with subtitles in English. Direction y production Juanamaria
Cordones-Cook. Comment: this film documents the life history and artistic
legacy of Cuba’s great dancer and choreographer Eduardo Rivero (1936-2012)
told by himself and by some of those who knew him well: Alberto Lescay,
Nancy Morejón, Santiago Alfonso, Isidro Rolando and Natalia Bolívar, among others. A
member of the founding generation of contemporary Cuban dance, Eduardo
Rivero developed a unique and effective technique to dance and to teach.
He created unforgettable choreographies and was a master of generations of
dancers in Cuba, the Caribbean, Europe and Canada. In addition, the film
is enriched by declarations of personalities of Cuban culture and clips of
Rivero dancing and of several of his classics, such as
Súlkary, Okantomí, Duo a Lam,
among others. He was and still is –even after his death- a Master of Cuban
Modern Dance.
Screenings:
2018: University of Missouri, celebrating Black History Month
(February).
2017: - Casa de las Américas,
Diversidad Cultural en el Caribe
(May)
- Celebration of Black History Month, sponsored by Cambio Center,
Universityh of MIssouri (Feb. 15)
- Galería
René
Cedeño,
Santiago de Cuba (November), presented by Teresa Melo and Ada Lescay.
- Casa de la Memoria Escénica,
in Matanzas for the Matanzas School of Dance (November 2017)
*
Una ruta afro-cubana: Zuleica Romay /An Afro-Cuban Journey: Zuleica
Romay (2017), ca 34 minutos.
Direction and production Juanamaria Cordones-Cook.
Comment: documentary presents the oral history of Zuleica Romay, an award
winning writer and a remarkable cultural leader, president of the Cuban
Book Institute (2009-2016), and director of the Program of Afro American
Studies at Casa de las Americas, since 2016. In her testimonial, Romay
shares her life journey going back to her ancestral memories. She
discusses her humble background and early experiences, her reflections on
her development and her human environment, the awakening of her interest
in books, the role of religion in her family. Romay reveals her
independent and rebellious spirit, and at the same time her loyalty to the
ideals of the Cuban Revolution that gave her the opportunity to be
educated. In addition she discusses her thoughts about race in Cuba, the
racialized vision of people, the naturalization of prejudice, as well as
racism and racial discrimination in 21st century Cuba. Zuleica
Romay asserts the need to have a ubiquitous social debate on racial
issues, as well as a struggle against racism at several levels in order to
give the problem and its consequences the visibility they deserve.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiggpWxL5G4
Screenings:
2017: Black history Month Celebration University of MIssouri
(February)
2018: University of West Georgia: 33rd Annual Interdisciplinary
Conference in the Humanities, “Intersectionalities/Interconnections/Liminalities
(October 25- 27, 2018)
*
Lescay, alma y tierra / Earth and Soul
(Cuba 2016) ca. 37 minutes with subtitles in English. Film on Alberto
Lescay Merencio (Santiago de Cuba 1950), a prominent sculptor and painter.
Artist is presented working in sculptures, paintings, and performances, in
his own personal and creative environment in Santiago and in Havana. He
discusses his family roots, his life, his world, and artistic objectives
and accomplishments. Film shows a broad spectrum of his artwork including
his magnificent paintings and bronze sculptures, icons of Cuban culture
and history, prominently displayed throughout the island. In addition the
film is enriched with comments by major Cuban intellectuals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGpqn_tdIz0
Award:
The
Centro Provincial del Libro y la
Literatura y el Centro de Promoción literaria "José Soler Puig,”
award (Santiago de Cuba);
Screenings:
2018: - Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE), St. Louis (April
5th)
-
“Galería
René
Valdés
Cedeño,” in Santiago de Cuba celebrating “Festival del Fuego,” July 2018.
- “El Bazar de la
Nueva Vida” at Sala Villena (UNEAC), presented by Nisia Agüero
and Nancy Morejón (July 21)
2017:
-
Festival Internacional de Documentales Santiago
Álvarez In
Memoriam in Santiago de Cuba (March).
- Fundación
Caguayo (November), presented by Teresa Melo and Ada Lescay.
2016: - The University at Albany-SUNY (November);
- Festival
Internacional de Poesía,
in Havana,
Cuba (May);
- Premiere at the Museo
Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba (May).
*
Olazábal, un hacedor de objetos / a Maker of Objects
(Cuba 2015), ca. 34 minutes.
A priest of Ifá,
multimedia artist Santiago Rodríguez Olazábal
(Havana 1955) expresses the profound grief of his African ancestors in his
artwork. He discusses his personal and artistic development, visits his
old friends in his childhood neighborhood and is shown drawing in charcoal
human figures that he effectively complements with vibrant primary colors.
The film displays a wide range of his bidimensional and tridimensional
oeuvres and is enriched by remarks of outstanding personalities of the
Cuban art scene..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EO5CnhdtFU
Screenings:
2016: “Afro-Cuban Artists: A Renaissance”, University of Missouri,
Columbia; Festival Internacional de Poesía.
2015: Premiere at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
celebrating
the Havana Biennial (Cuba);
Diversidad Cultural en el Caribe,
International conference at Casa de las Américas
(May18); Fundación
Caguayo, the Lam Monument Park for the 2015 Biennial in Havana (May-June);
San Francisco festival sponsored by the Turquino Project (July).
*
El mundo mágico de Mendive /
The Magical World of Mendive (2016), ca. 40
minutes long. Film offers a unique perspective into the personal and
artistic world of Manuel Mendive, the
leading contemporary Cuban artist. Creating in various genres, drawing,
painting, body painting, soft and hard sculpture, installations, and
performances, Mendive is also a
Santería priest, whose spirituality permeates all of his art.
This documentary shows a broad spectrum of his work and presents the artis
painting in his studio in the midst of his tropical forest. He offers some
unprecedented remarks on his early life, on African elements in his art
while he discusses his aesthetics and his profound fascination with the
creative process. This film is enriched with comments by major Cuban
intellectuals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjXj3c2tMRo
Review:
“Estrenan
en La Habana documental sobre el pintor cubano Manuel
Mendive”, by Julio Pérez.
Screenings:
2016: “Afro-Cuban Artists: A Renaissance”, University
of Missouri, Columbia; Festival Internacional de Poesía,
Havana (May); Festival
Internacional de Poesía, La Habana (May).
2015: Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
celebrating
the Havana Biennial (Cuba);
Diversidad Cultural en el Caribe,
International conference at Casa de las Américas
(May18);
Fundación Caguayo
at the Lam Monument Park for the 2015 Biennial in Havana (May-June);
San Francisco festival sponsored by the Turquino Project (July); 2014:
New Cinema Latin American Film Festival in Havana (December).
*
Choco
(2014), ca. 29 minutes long. Documentary
on Eduardo “Choco” Roca Salazar, an artist born in a working class family,
who became a world famous print-maker. Film shows him at work in his Old
Havana workshop, as well as visiting his former art school and a vast
collection of his art work from the start of his career. Film is enriched
by readings by Nancy Morejón
and Pablo Milanés, comments by
prominent Cuban art critics, and music created for this film by Miguelito
Núñez.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC6lzrReMJE
Screenings:
2018: At the “Santiago Alvarez In Memoriam”
international documentary festival, in Santiago de Cuba, March
15-21.
On Educatuional National Cuban TV fo “Celebrating 100 year birthday
of Santiago Alvarez”.
2016:
ArteMorfosis Gallery,
in Zürich (November)
; Massachussets College of Art and Design (October);
Afro-Cuban
Artists: A Renaissance”, University of Missouri(April); Festival
Internacional de Poesía,
La Habana (May).
2015 -inaugurated
Spring 2015 Cuban Cinema Series at the Cooper Gallery in conjunction
with the Drapetomanía exhibit of Afro-Cuban artists form the 1980’s, at the
Hutchins Center for Africa and African American Research, Harvard University. (February);
Fundación
Caguayo screened at the Lam
Monument Park for the 2015 Biennial in Havana (May-June);
Universidad del Uruguay, Montevideo
(June);
San
Francisco mini festival sponsored by the Turquino Project (July).
2014: Fábrica de Arte, La
Habana, along with the opening of and exhibit of artwork by
“Choco” (October
20); New Cinema Latin American Film Festival in Havana
(December).
*
Rogelio Martínez Furé: Un griot cubano / A Cuban Griot (2014), ca. 30 minutes.
Presentation of a writer,
Africanist, scholar of folklore, and religion, and founder of the National
Folkloric Ballet, in Havana and in his birthplace, Matanzas. Through
conversations with Furé and other prominent
Afro-Cuban intellectuals, as well as images of religious rituals and
dances of the National Folkloric Ballet and the Olurum Group, film
discloses layers of Cuba’s rich cultural heritage and African legacy. It
portrays Furé
as a contemporary griot, a
repository of oral tradition who recovers and guards Afro-Cuban and
Caribbean silenced memories and true identity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMSXEayoVtA
Review: Georgina Herrera,
February 2014.
Award:
The Universidad de Oriente, Facultad de Educación en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades
award for a documentary on Rogelio Martínez
Furé
(Santiago de Cuba). 2017.
Screenings:
2018:
Bienal de la Oralidad Escénica,
Teatro Cimarrón,
Havana, Cuba.
2017: - Festival Internacional
de Documentales Santiago
Álvarez In
Memoriam in Santiago de Cuba (March);
- 8va. EDICIÓN,
MUESTRA ITINERANTE DE CINE DEL CARIBE 2017
- UNEAC in Havana at El Bazar de la Nueva Vida, an event
organized by Nisia Agüero. Documentary
was presented by Nancy Morejón.
2016:
International Book Fair, Havana (February); Ragtag Cinema, Columbia
(April 13);
-Festival
Internacional de Poesía, La Habana
(May).
2015:
Universidad del Uruguay, Montevideo, June; “Círculo
Musical de Montevideo”, Uruguay (July );
-Cine Cubano: Film Festival, A.N.S.W.E.R.
Coalition Bay Area, 2969 Mission St, San Francisco,
California. (July 25);
-Niebyl-Proctor Library, Oakland, CA (July);
-San
Francisco festival sponsored by the Turquino Project (July).
2014:
Premiere at MACA, in UNEAC, Havana. Presented by Georgina Herrera and
Nancy Morejón,
February
11;
-Fundación
Caguayo, in Santiago de Cuba, March 21;
-Museum of the African Diaspora of San Francisco, Afro-Cuban Film
Series, in conjunction with
exhibition entitled
Drapetomania: Grupo Antillano and the
Art of Afro Cuba,
December 4th;
-New Cinema
Latin American Film Festival in Havana (December)
* Georgina Herrera Reads her Poetry (2013), Ca.7 minutes. Cuban writer Georgina Herrera reads aloud in Spanish several poems that illustrate her poetic sensibility and strong social consciousness. Descendant of slaves, staunch feminist, and defender of the socialist Cuban Revolution, Herrera's frank social criticism melds with her personal lyricism to produce a unique voice in Latin American poetry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeGX2huh2
* Diago: Artista apalencado/A
Maroon Artist (2013), ca.
27 minutes long. Presentation of multimedia artist, Juan Roberto Diago
(1972), who understands the creative possibilities of recycling and
bricolage and enriches his
images by juxtaposing graffiti with racially contesting intent. He has
labeled himself a “maroon artist” and his artwork results in “cultural
resistance”. In this documentary, Diago openly discusses issues of race
and poverty in contemporary Cuba, as well as their representation in his
paintings and installations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWiPPtODvXU
Screenings:
2018:
University of West Georgia: 33rd Annual Interdisciplinary
Conference in the Humanities,
“Intersectionalities/Interconnections/Liminalities” (October 25- 27,
2018)
-At the “Santiago Alvarez In Memoriam” international documentary festival,
in Santiago de Cuba, March 15-21.
2017: at UNEAC, in Havana, with round table with Nancy Morejón
and artist Juan Roberto Diago
-Harvard University (March)
2016: State University of New York at Albany (November);
-York College of Pennsylvania (March);
-Ragtag
Cinema, Columbia (April 13);
-Festival Internacional de Poesía,
La Habana (May).
2015: Diversidad Cultural en el
Caribe, International conference
at Casa de las Américas
(May18);
-Fundación
Caguayo screened at the Lam Monument Park for the 2015
Biennial in Havana (May-June);
-Universidad de la República del Uruguay, Montevideo, June;
-Inaugurated
Spring 2015 Cuban Cinema Series at the Cooper Gallery in conjunction
with the Drapeto-manía exhibit of Afro-Cuban artists form the 1980’s, at the
Hutchins Center for Africa and
African American Research, Harvard University;
-Niebyl-Proctor Library, Oakland, CA (July);
-San
Francisco mini festival sponsored by the Turquino Project (July);
-Fundación
Caguayo at the Lam Monument Park for the 2015 Biennial in
Havana (May-June).
2014: Black History Month, University of Missouri, Columbia
(February 11);
-Truman State University (February 26);
-Fundación Caguayo, in Santiago de
Cuba (March 21);
-Museum of the African Diaspora of San Francisco, Afro-Cuban Film
Series, in conjunction with
exhibition
entitled Drapetomania: Grupo
Antillano and the Art of Afro Cuba
(December 4th);
-Truman State
University (March).
2013 -The Latin American New Cinema Festival in
Arte y Tradición, Havana (December).
*
Nancy Morejón:
Paisajes célebres/Famous
Landscapes
(2013), ca
54 minutes long. Film presents contemporary Cuban culture and intellectual
life through the world and artistic work of one of its most celebrated
poets, Nancy Morejón (Havana 1944), as well as
through the voices of prominent Cuban intellectuals. The music was
performed by Richard Egües, Marta Valdés,
and Elena Burke.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=B2ZZq8pqHXg
Presented: Maggie Mateo and Iraida López,
at LASA (2013)
Reviews: Margarita
Matteo Palmer, Afro-Hispanic Review.
Volume 31, Number 2 (Fall 2012), 175-180; Miguel
Lozano, “Académicos rinden homenaje a Nancy
Morejón”,
CUBADEBATE, contra el Terrorismo
Mediático
(Junio 1, 2013): Astrid Barnet
“Nancy Morejón,
la más
importante poeta afrodescendiente
de la lengua española
contemporánea”,
Screenings:
2018:
Bienal de la Oralidad Escénica, Teatro Cimarrón, Teatro Cimarrón,
Havana, Cuba.
2017:
Centro del Caribe, Santiago de Cuba, presented by Dr. Raúl
Ruiz Miyares.
Centro
Dulce María
Loynaz. “Imágenes
y palabras” at “Fe de vida” presented by Aitana
Alberti, on
June 27th.
2016: The University at
Albany-SUNY (November);
Université de La Sorbonne (October
14);
Université de Lyon 2 (October 6);
Black History Month, invited by
Cambio Center and MU
Voz(February);
Festival Internacional de Poesía, La Habana
(May).
2015:
University of Missouri, presented by Dr. Patricia González (Smith
College) and Dr. Efraín
Barradas (University of Florida) (April);
San Francisco festival sponsored by the Turquino Project (July);
Richmond Main Library,
Civic Plaza Center, Richmond, California (December).
2014: International Conference by the Universitat de Barcelona,
Centre dona i literature:
“Congreso de Literatura y Cultura femenina Hispánica”,
at Instituto de Literatura y Lingüística,
Havana, Cuba;
MACA, at UNEAC in Havana, presented by Rogelio Martínez
Furé, May 2nd;
Encuentro: Universo Avellaneda”, in UNEAC, Havana;
Fundación
Caguayo, in Santiago de Cuba, presented by poet Teresa Melo, May 7;
San Francisco Public Library.
2013
Havana’s International Book Fair, February;
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, International Conference,
Cuba–Myth and Reality: Culture,
History, Politics, May 26th;
LASA International Conference, Washington DC, May 30th;
“The Emerald Tablet”, Berkeley, May;
The Latin American New Cinema Festival, Havana, December.
*
Ediciones Vigía
(1985-2011): Abriendo archivos/Opening Archives
(2013), ca. 7 hours and 30
minutes long. Vigía’s
principal designer Rolando Estévez
chronologically reviews the entire collection of books, while highlighting
technological changes, as well as innovations in aesthetic languages. Not
a complete record, but close to it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zAELtCdjKs4
* Vigía:
Entre la palabra y la imagen / Between the Word and the Image
(2012), ca. 98 minutes. A brief panoramic view of the evolution of the collective
Ediciones Vigía
by its principal designer, Rolando Estévez.
Screenings:
2014: Vigía: Visual History RedLine
Gallery, at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Special Collections
Library.
*
La Habana expuesta, un diseño de Estévez/Havana on Display, a Design by Estévez
(2012), ca.
21 minutes long.
An
anthology of poetry by Nancy Morejón, edited by J
Cordones-Cook. Documentary on the design of a book to be reproduced 200
times by the craftsmen and women of
Ediciones Vigía as
presented by Rolando Estévez founder and principal
designer of the press.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hks31h75Kw&feature=relmfu
Review: David Vila.
Afro-Hispanic Review Vol. 34. Number 2. Fall 2015. 191-193.
Screenings:
2017: “The Art of the Book and
entrepreneurship”, University of Arkansas (April 18)
2016: State University of New York at Albany (November); Université Lumiere de
Lyon 2
(October);
Festival Internacional de Poesía, La Habana
(May).
2015: Niebyl-Proctor Library, Oakland, CA
(July).
2014: Truman State University (February); Museum of the African
Diaspora, San Francisco,
September.
2013: Instituto Cervantes library in conjunction with the
Institut Ibero Americanisches,
in Berlin
(January);
Havana’s International Book Fair (February); The Emerald Tablet,
Berkeley (March); Centre for Cuban Studies-New York, Summer Film Series (June);
The New Latin American Cinema Film Festival in Havana, Cuba
(December);
2012:
Cultural Bricolage International Conference, UMC (November);
University of Houston (November); University of Michigan
(December).
* Ediciones Vigía:
Poéticas visuales / Visual
Poetics
(2012), ca. 51 minutes long.
with English subtitles. The development and evolution of the press, the
production of Vigia books as
well as interviews with Vigía
craftsmen and women, and numerous other prominent Cuban intellectuals who
have been involved with this press from its inception, such as poet
laureate Nancy Morejón, composer Marta Valdés,
art historian Adelaida de Juan, anthropologist
Ruth Behar, among others.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iK-dYtsXPmU
Review: Charles Geyer.
Afro-Hispanic Review. Afro-Hispanic Review Vol. 34. Number 2. Fall
2015. 183-185.
Screenings: 2017: “The Art of the Book and
entrepreneurship”, University of Arkansas Library (March 14)
2016: Festival
Internacional de Poesía, La Habana
(May).
2015:
Niebyl-Proctor Library, Oakland, CA (July).
2014: New Cinema
Latin American Film Festival in
Havana (December);
Discover the Art of Latin American Books (And Make Your Own) at
“Subversive
Works/Sustainable Art", event on the art of the book, at the
University of Southern
California
Libraries;
“Ediciones
Vigía
Books: A Visual History,” RedLine Gallery, at
the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Special Collections Library.
Oct–Dec.;
University of Michigan.
2013:
Instituto Cervantes library in conjunction with the
Institut-Ibero Americanisches,
in Berlin, Germany (January);
Centre for Cuban Studies-New York, Summer Film Series (June);
International Book Fair, Havana, Cuba (February);
The Emerald Tablet, Berkeley (March);
Latin American Studies Association
Film Festival, Washington DC
(May); h
Centre for Cuban Studies-New York, Summer Film Series (June).
2012: MU
Cultural Bricolage Conference (November);
University of Houston (November); University of Michigan (December)
*
Un libro
único
de Estévez/A
One-of-a-Kind Book
by Estevéz
(2012) ca. 14 minutes long. The conception and creation of a one-of-a-kind
art-object book on the poem “I Love My Master” by Nancy Morejón.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud3nQamdxUY&feature=relmfu
Screenings: 2016: Festival Internacional de Poesía,
La Habana (May).
2015: Universidad
del Uruguay, Montevideo (June).
2014: San
Francisco Public Library (September).
2013: Havana’s
International Book Fair (February);
The Emerald Tablet, San Francisco (March);
New York Centre for Cuban Studies, Summer Film Series (June).
2012: Cultural
Bricolage Conference, Columbia (November);
University of Houston (November);
University of Michigan (December).
*
Battle: Change from within
(2012), ca. 56 minutes long. This documentary explores in depth the life
of Eliot Battle, a Columbia educator who played a pivotal role in
desegregating schools, housing, and the community. As he facilitated
changes with quiet resolve, he faced resistance from both the black and
white communities. His calm demeanor and dedicated work within existing
institutions and systems allowed him to bridge the gap between the two
races and change Columbia for the better.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aouPdS6Lpw
The
Telly Award, selected among
12,000 entries form all 50 states and numerous foreign countries (2013).
First Place Award, KC Film Fest
Best Heartland Feature Documentary (2013).
Emmy Award nomination
(September 2014)
Screenings:
Numerous screenings in public and cultural insitutions and schools
throughout Missouri and Kansas City since 2012 to the present.
2015: Instituto
de Literatura y Lingüística,
Havana, Cuba (December);
Public Schools in
Columbia and Kansas City.
2013: Ragtag
Cinema, Columbia, Missouri;
San Diego Black Film
Festival (February);
Kansas City FilmFest,
at Alamo Drafthouse Mainstreet (April);
New Hope Film
Festival, Pennsylvania (July);
St. Louis Film
Festival (November);
Screened in US
national television, KMIZ.
2014: National
Television, in USA;
The University of
Missouri, Columbia (numerous times 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015).
2012: Premiere at
the University of Missouri (February 25th);
Multiple screenings
through the city of Columbia, the School of
Education, High Schools in Missouri, and the Rotary Club.
*
Cimarroneando con G.H
(2011), ca. 30 minutes long. with English subtitles. Candid interview with
Georgina Herrera, answers are illustrated by poetry read by Herrera, by
African art objects and Cuban paintings. This documentary accompanies a
bilingual anthology of Herrera’s poems,
Always a Rebel / Cimarroneando
(Chico, California: CubanaBooks, 2014).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dxlDAoBZwyo
Screenings:
2018:
“Santiago Alvarez In Memoriam” documentary Festival in Santiago de Cuba
(March).
2016: Festival
Internacional de Poesía, La Habana
(May)
2015: Niebyl-Proctor Library, Oakland,
CA (July);
“Specs”,
William Saroyan Place, San Francisco (July);
San Francisco festival sponsored by the Turquino Project (July)
2014: “Encuentro:
Universo Avellaneda”, in UNEAC, Havana (March);
“4ta. Conferencia
Internacional de Estudios Afro-Latinoamericanos de Negritud",
Universidad de Cartagena,
Colombia (Marzo);
International
conference by the Universitat de Barcelona,
Centre dona i literature:
“Congreso de Literatura y Cultura femenina Hispánica”,
Instituto de Literatura y Lingüística, La Habana,
Cuba
(November).
2012: Black
History Month, University of Missouri, Columbia (February).
2011: UNEAC,
Havana, Cuba (March); University of Missouri, International Symposium on
Georgina Herrera (April).
2013: Seminar on
African Sciences with filmmakers, University of Humboldt, Berlin, Germany;
International Book Fair, Havana, Cuba (February).
* La silla dorada (2010), ca. 90 minutes long. Audiovisual anthology of poetry by
Nancy Morejón filmed. The Poet reads 52
of her most celebrated poems. Film accompanies anthology of Morejón’s
poetry published by Letras Cubanas in 2015.
Screenings:
2011: UNEAC, Havana, Cuba
2010: University of
Missouri, Columbia. |
For sale: documentaries On Cuban Artists And Poets by Juanamaría Cordones-Cook (downloads/descargas). These films are also available as DVDs
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