Epicentro

synopsis

From world-renowned filmmaker Hubert Sauper – director of Sundace winner WE COME AS FRIENDS and the Oscar-nominated DARWIN’S NIGHTMARE – comes EPICENTRO, an immersive and metaphorical portrait of post-colonial, “utopian” Cuba, where the 1898 explosion of the USS Maine still resonates. The Big Bang ended Spanish colonial dominance in the Americas and ushered in the era of the American Empire.  At the same time and place, a powerful tool of conquest was born: cinema as propaganda.  In EPICENTRO, Sauper explores a century of interventionism and myth-making together with the extraordinary people of Havana – Particularly its children, who he call “young prophets”= to interrogate time, imperialism and cinema itself.

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Cast

Oona Castillo Chaplin

Directed by

Hubert Sauper

Written by

Hubert Sauper