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MI FAMILIA Sara Gómez Doc. / 1966 / 35 mm. / B/N / 13 min. Guión: Sara Gómez Productora: ICAIC Productor: Eduardo Valdés Rivero, Jesús Pascau Sonido: Departamento de Sonido ICAIC Música: Fabio Landa Edición: Justo Vega Fotografía: José Tabío, Luis Marzoa Sinopsis: La realizadora, en busca de sus raíces, presenta un cuadro familiar que es testimonio de una época y de un modo de vida. |
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TENEMOS SABOR Sara Gómez Doc. / 1967 / 35 mm. / B/N / 30 min. Guión: Sara Gómez Productora: ICAIC Productor: Jesús Pascau Sonido: Germinal Hernández, Carlos Fernández Edición: Justo Vega Fotografía: Mario García Joya, José López Sinopsis: Análisis de la música cubana a partir de la procedencia y sonoridad de sus instrumentos básicos. |
| EN LA OTRA ISLA Sara Gómez Doc. / 1968 / 35 mm. / B/N / 41 min. Guión: Sara Gómez Productora: ICAIC Productor: Jesús Pascau Sonido: Germinal Hernández Música: Tomás González Pérez Edición: Caíta Villalón Fotografía: Luis García Sinopsis: Documental encuesta realizado en la Isla de la Juventud con quienes integran y representan la nueva generación. |
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BATEYES Sara Gómez Doc. / 1971 / 35 mm. / B/N / 24 min. Guión: Sara Gómez Productora: ICAIC Productor: Santiago Llapur, Guillermo García Sonido: Germinal Hernández Música: Emiliano Salvador Edición: Iván Arocha Fotografía: Luis García Sinopsis: Reportaje sobre la historia de los bateyes. Presencia y significación cultural de los inmigrantes. |
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TRABAJO VOLUNTARIO Sara Gómez Doc. / 1973 / 35 mm. / B/N / 9 min. Guión: Sara Gómez Productora: ICAIC Productor: Guillermo García Sonido: José Borrás Edición: Iván Arocha Fotografía: José M. Riera Sinopsis: Opiniones de obreros de la industria textil sobre las tesis del XIII Congreso Obrero de la CTC. |
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CIERTA MANERA Sara Gómez Fic. / 1974 / 35 mm. / B/ N / 79 min. Guión: Sara Gómez, Tomás González Productora: ICAIC Productor: Camilo Vives Sonido: Germinal Hernández Escenografía: Roberto Larrabure Música: Sergio Vitier Edición: Iván Arocha Fotografía: Luis García Intérpretes: Mario Balmaseda, Yolanda Cuéllar, Mario Limonta, Isaura Mendoza, Bobby Carcasés, Sarita Reyes y actores no profesionales Sinopsis: El reparto Miraflores, construido en 1962 por los mismos que lo habitarían, es resultado de los primeros esfuerzos de la Revolución por erradicar los barrios marginales. Yolanda, nueva maestra de la comunidad, afronta las diferencias y conflictos que surgen en su relación amorosa con Mario, un obrero de la barriada, en la que se manifiesta el choque entre la antigua mentalidad y las nuevas actitudes. |
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Sara Gómez: an untrodden path to a Cuban legacy, Cuba Now, 11/6/07 |
By Isidro Estrada |
The Colloquium Sara Gomez: Multiple Image, Cuban audiovisual means from a gender perspective, hosted by the Cinematographic Cultural Center of the Cuban Film Institute in the first week of November in Havana, aroused bitter-sweet memories among a few dozen connoisseurs, relatives, friends, filmmakers and fans that gathered for the occasion. But rather than concentrating in long-overdue obituaries, they chose to discuss at length all the topics that made Sara enjoy her career as a director who managed to become a subject of her own films. Wondering why her documentary works ever vanished from the silver screen after her fictional maiden work of 1974, ¨De cierta manera¨ (One Way or Another), hit Cuban theaters in 1977, the attendees repeatedly referred to Sarita as the visionary she always was. By rekindling old memories of her, the symposium made the point of revisiting her unique talent to grasp, document and, above all, question, the Cuban reality of the 60s, at a time when the whole country was embracing a new social model, while still struggling with old racial and gender prejudices. The validity of Gomez´s cinematic approach for Cuba – and the world at large- today may be an essential outcome of the colloquium. In the 60s many of her chronological peers might had failed to understand that, through her incisive documentaries, Sara Gomez was speaking volumes when she delved into the logical contradictions between desire and reality, change and tradition, slogans and daily life. Oddly enough, however, her films did not made a splash among the filmmaking community of the time, but rather left their lasting imprint in the ranks of playwrights, according to an old friend and former colleague of Sara Gomez’s. Writer Inés María Martiatu recalled during the meeting how De cierta manera opened the doors of Cuban theatres to pieces that also dealt with topics such as social exclusion, male chauvinism and racism, such as Andoba, by the late Alberto Pedro. De cierta manera, which Sara could not see on the screen due to her early death, would later go through a rugged path until it finally premiered by the end of 1977. An accident during the process of negative development rendered the film almost unpresentable to viewers until it was later repaired. Nowadays, many critics agree, it remains as fresh as and relevant as it was 30 years ago. It is a classic of Cuban cinema, comparable to Memories of Underdevelopment, by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, who by the way, became Gomez´s principal mentor at the Cuban Film Institute in the 60s. Sara Gómez emphasized a vision of social criticism in which she refused to behave as an outsider. She never shied away from getting deeply involved –even by appearing in her films- in the topics she dealt with. She was a revolutionary and therefore felt thoroughly committed when pointing out the flaws of the socio-political process she was so much a part of. Here follows Sara Gomez’s filmography: 1964 Ire a Santiago 1965 Excursion a Vueltabajo 1967 Y tenemos sabor 1968 En la otra isla 1969 Isla del tesero 1970 Poder local, poder popular 1971 Un documental a proposito del transito 1972 Atencion prenatal; Ano uno 1973 Sobre horas extras y trabajo voluntario 1977 De cierta manera (One Way or Another) her only full-length feature *The author is a reporter for Cubanow. *Originally written in English |
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para una muestra: Sara Gomez
por Inés María
Sara Gómez: another dream, Gloria Rolando
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