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Film Screening and Discussion -- Miguel Coyula: "Sound and image in Memories of Overdevelopment" (Feb. 21, 2PM)

Event Start: 
Fri, 02/21/2014 - 2:00pm - 5:00pm
Location: 
701C Dodge Hall (Center for Ethnomusicology)

The Center for Ethnomusicology Presents a Talk and Film Screening of:

Sound and image in Memories of Overdevelopment

featuring Miguel Coyula, Independent film-maker (Cuba)

Friday February 21, 2014
701 C Dodge Hall (The Center for Ethnomusicology)
2.00 pm- 5.00 pm

Free and open to the public.  

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Miguel Coyula (Havana, 1977) is one of the most accomplished and internationally acclaimed Independent Filmmakers from Cuba. He is the director of several experimental short films and two feature films, Cucarachas rojas (2003) and Memorias del Desarrollo (2010), which was first shown in Sundance and has since gained enormous recognition and several awards.  Coyula's work is aesthetically focused on exploring new ways of storytelling through digital technology, yet his films are lucid and sophisticated portrayals of a variety of historical events and political matters. Memorias del Desarrollo, based on a novel by Edmundo Desnoes, tells the story of a Cuban intellectual who leaves "underdevelopment" behind to find himself at odds with the ambiguities of his new life as a professor in the "developed" world. The protagonist is a witness to the Cuban Revolution and the several waves of migration leaving the island from the 60's to the 80's, as well as to the attacks of September 11th in New York. The movie is not available in DVD or for commercial purposes.

Click here for an interview with Coyula in Spanish

See the film trailer here:

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