Round tables > Cinematographic Cuba. Transnational filmic representations, intersecting visions, and fantasies.

Visual Arts round table

Wednesday 14 June from 11:15 to 13:15

Palais Hirsch, Grand amphithéâtre

Organization: Magali Kabous (LCE - Université Lumière Lyon 2) and Zaira Zarza (Université de Montréal)

Speakers: Jerry Carlson (États-Unis), Désirée Diaz (Swarthmore College), Sara Alonso Gómez (Aix-Marseille Université), Zaira Zarza (Université de Montréal) and Inti Herrera (Cuba)

Presentation

The country that linkes the differents speakers at this round table is Cuba. Nevertheless, due to its geographical position and its history, the Caribean island allows through radiation to address many ofther countries of the region : the United States, caribean neighbors, friends or foes latin-american countries depending on periods, Europe. The reflexion will bear on the production and circulation of visual arts and filmic works in particular, the representation of spaces, the imaginaries that the works question and feed. We will take into account cultural, institutional and independent productions that take Cuba as their main subject, whether they are created by Cuban or foreign artists and movie directors. The diversity in the speakers' research will give an idea of the different issues that are currently discussed in filmic and visual studies.

Many will be discussed, such as the exotic and colonial visions ; the diaspora of artists and their work outside their country, but also the exile as a subject ; the circulation of movies about Cuba in festivals and their distribution in France ; their reception by the public and the stereotypes used ; the contrat of representation between conflict and fascination ; the finances of productions ; the independent curatorial practices in the actual context of creative industries.