{"id":339,"date":"2015-07-23T13:48:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T17:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2015\/07\/23\/watch-the-suddenly-very-relevant-soy-cuba-on-the-big-screen\/"},"modified":"2015-07-23T13:48:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T17:48:00","slug":"watch-the-suddenly-very-relevant-soy-cuba-on-the-big-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2015\/07\/23\/watch-the-suddenly-very-relevant-soy-cuba-on-the-big-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch the suddenly-very-relevant Soy Cuba on the big screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/silver.afi.com\/Browsing\/Movies\/Details\/m-0100000010\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"https:\/\/silver.afi.com\/Browsing\/Movies\/Details\/m-0100000010\" border=\"0\" height=\"261\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-3cM9xZ2w1f0\/VbEoZ_9_dTI\/AAAAAAAABy4\/h924mgUEJ9E\/s400\/soycuba.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The normalization of relations between the United States and Cuba this week opens some obvious doors \u2013 some are surely counting down the days until legal cigar imports \u2013 but it also offers an appropriate moment to revisit cultural history we may have ignored intentionally or otherwise. Post-revolutionary Cuban films are sometimes left out of world cinema discussions.<\/p>\n<p>A great place to start that discussion is <i>I Am Cuba <\/i>(<i>Soy Cuba<\/i>), a visually stunning work depicting pre-revolutionary Cuba and the spirit of its people, including the country&#8217;s early cultural tensions with the United States. <i>I Am Cuba<\/i> was nearly forgotten and languished in Soviet archives for decades before its found new popularity for its striking camerawork and themes. In an almost-too-perfect programming coincidence, the AFI Silver Theatre in Silver Spring <a href=\"https:\/\/silver.afi.com\/Browsing\/Movies\/Details\/m-0100000010\">will be screening <i>I Am Cuba<\/i><\/a> <b>tomorrow, July 24th, at 4:30pm<\/b>, with repeat screenings on Sunday and Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Historically, culturally, and artistically, this is a tremendous and once-again relevant film. If you can&#8217;t catch it this weekend, you can always borrow our copy from the AU Library (<a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.wrlc.org\/cgi-bin\/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=3994557\">HU DVD 331<\/a>)\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The normalization of relations between the United States and Cuba this week opens some obvious doors \u2013 some are surely counting down the days until legal cigar imports \u2013 but it also offers an appropriate moment to revisit cultural history we may have ignored intentionally or otherwise. Post-revolutionary Cuban films are sometimes left out of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[355,395],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-screening","tag-timely-things","tag-world-cinema"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}