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Now! is a short film created in 1965 by Cuban filmmaker Santiago Alvarez. The film was created using pre-existing footage, also known as “found footage,” from newsreels and still photographs. This found footage documents the struggle for racial equality waged by Black people and their allies in the face of violence, torture and death at the ...
Jan 22, 2015 · Twenty years before MTV started playing music videos, Santiago Álvarez set newsreel footage to music in his short film NOW. This Cuban Revolutionary Turned a Lena Horne Song into a...
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Santiago Álvarez Román (March 8, 1919 – May 20, 1998) was a Cuban filmmaker. He wrote and directed many documentaries about Cuban and American culture.
Concebida como noticiario para ser proyectado en los cines en 1965, se trata de una de las denuncias más rotundas de la violencia policial en Estados Unidos contra la población afroamericana. Álvarez (La Habana, 1919-1998), uno de los inventores del documental de montaje (“dame dos fotografías, una canción, una moviola y te daré una ...
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Mar 3, 2021 · The Santiago Alvarez Documentary Film Festival will take place online, and the festival will broadcast its programming on Cuba's public television through the Multivision channel.
Mar 1, 2006 · Santiago Alvarez was the pioneer of Cuba’s revolutionary cinema: the first to produce works of inarguable importance, and the first to exhibit them widely abroad. The early films of Santiago Alvarez alerted the world to something vital gestating in the corridors of Cuba’s ICAIC film institute.
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Jul 28, 2023 · Now, 1965, would be certainly enough for Santiago Álvarez to earn his rightful place among the best Cuban documentary filmmakers of the 20 th century. Many film critics and historians consider him a pioneer in formal terms. Some even say that his work is the antecedent of current video clips.
