This edition: Memories of Underdevelopment
Episode Details
Original tape date: April 24, 1989.Memories of Underdevelopent (Memorias del Subdesarrollo) (1968/Cuba; 97 min., b&w, sound); Dir. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea. Cast: Sergio Corrieri, Daisy Granados. After his wife and family flee in the wake of the Bay of Pigs invasion, the bourgeois intellectual Sergio passes his days wandering Havana in idle reflection, his amorous entanglements and political ambivalence gradually giving way to a mounting sense of alienation (Criterion).
On this episode of Cinema Then, Cinema Now, Professor Jerry Carlson (College of Staten Island) sits down with Coco Fusco (Cuban-American artist) and Edmundo Desnoes (author of Inconsolable Memories) to discuss Tomás Gutiérrez Alea's Memories of Underdevelopment (1968) as part of Survey of Latin American Cinema.
Other topics of discussion include:
Recorded on April 24, 1989 at the Borough Manhattan Community College Media Center.
Efforts to preserve this program were made possible by "Uncovering CUNY's Audiovisual Heritage," a project funded by Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR).
Guest List
Prof. Jerry Carlson Professor of Film Studies, City College of New York
Edmundo Desnoes Author, Inconsolable Memories
Coco Fusco Artist
