The Refugees in Two Worlds: Analysis of the Audiovisual Independent Production around the Cuban Migration
Keywords:
Cuban emigration, Cuban independent cinematography, audiovisual production, filmic treatment, filmmaking processAbstract
The history of the Caribbean and humanity in general is the history of migrations. In the present century, one out of 35 persons is an international migrant. Cuba, country of emigration, as A. Aja (2006) would define it, is a peculiar variant of transnational migration, given the particular characteristics that have distinguished the Cuban community abroad after 1959. The presence of the migration and its ethics and moral implications in the Cuban society, the allegory of the exodus, the separation, eradication and the homesickness have constituted obligated topics of art and Cuban cinematography as images of a sociocultural reality that couldn’t be postponed. The objective of this article focuses on an analysis of a group of independent audiovisual productions, made by Cuban young filmmakers, which have in the main argument the treatment of the Cuban emigration phenomenon, as a preliminary approach to the study of this topic in the Cuban independent cinematography after 2000.
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