Cinema historian Luciano Castillo, co-author of Cronología del cine cubano, presents a panorama of early Cuban cinema to audiences at the Havana Film Festival New York.
With more than 45 films from a dozen countries, including a retrospective of Cuban cinema before the Revolution, this year’s Havana New York Film Festival has enough footage to fill screens in Manhattan, Queens, and the Bronx. All this and CuCu Diamantes, too.
Carlos Martiel wins the 2013 Arte Laguna Prize and opens a solo show in Naples. Moisés Finalé takes a solo show in Havana, Gustavo Acosta & Carlos González double up in Miami, and Esterio Segura finally installs his public art project in New York City.
This year’s Documentary Fortnight film series at New York’s Museum of Modern Art featured “New Cuban Shorts,” a four-program series of recent documentaries by emerging directors. Nadine Covert reports on the films and the filmmakers who presented them.
A major Ana Mendieta retrospective opens in Turin, Los Carpinteros light a fire at Matadero Madrid, and Tania Bruguera delivers a prestigious lecture in San Diego. Armando Mariño goes solo at Volta NY, shows open in Chelsea and Brooklyn, and Cuban films and filmmakers come to MoMA.