Cuba
(La Habana, 1919-1998)
Founder and director of the paradigmatic Noticiero ICAIC Latinoamericano, a school for a large part of Cuban filmmakers for more than thirty years and a laboratory for audiovisual and journalistic experimentation. His work stood out for the constant exercise of what he would call “subjective journalism” - the assumption that “reality” is a subjective construction of the person who tells it, marked by political activism, beliefs and ways of seeing the world–; by the provocative use of montage in close relationship with the soundtrack, which was not a complement to the images, but was used as a generator of meaning by interpreting in some way what was shown at a visual level; and for a commitment to the Cuban Revolution and everything that emanated from it. In the same way, he defended the importance of cinematographic journalism as an aspect of the documentary genre.
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