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UnMade in Cuba
These film posters reference “ghost films” that were never made. In showcasing Cuba’s rich cinema and vibrant graphic design traditions, these 53 images pay homage to island creativity.
Carteles de Alucho: Cuban Film Posters
Born in Havana in 1984, Alejandro Rodríguez Fornés “Alucho,” is a prolific graphic designer and an important figure in the use of emerging technologies and digital art in Cuban graphic design. This was his first solo exhibit in the United States.
Clásicos Restaurados
This “Restored Classics” series features the work of some of Cuba’s most renowned graphic artists working today. Each creator designed an image to accompany one of the internationally renowned Latin American films restored in recent years.
Posters of Cuba’s Revolutionary Films
This collection contains posters from 1962 to 2011 of feature films, documentaries, animated films, film events, and others that were produced in Cuba by Cuban artists. Posters were primarily created by using a silk screen process and were made for both Cuban and non-Cuban films.
Fernando Pérez
Cuba’s most highly regarded filmmaker living today, Fernando Pérez enjoys a long relationship with William & Mary. The collection contains a wide range of primary source materials from film scripts to interviews to books documenting Perez’s extensive film career.
Handmade Books
Swem Library’s Special Collections Research Center holds dozens of books made by Cuban artists and W&M students practicing the art of bookmaking. Many of the items in the collection were created at Ediciones Vigía in Matanzas, Cuba and the Cuadernos Papiro workshop in Holguín, Cuba.
Interviews with Filmmakers & Artists
This collection includes filmed interviews with Cuban filmmakers, artists and writers created by W&M researchers and scholars. These interviews provide unique insight into their work, introduces us to other island creators and allows a glimpse of the changing island context during this time of accelerated transition.
Televisión Serrana
This collection contains the works of the filmmakers of Televisión Serrana, a rural community media organization in Cuba. Some of the films demonstrate creativity, showcasing innovative solutions to daily difficulties; others portray the region’s inhabitants and reproduce the rhythms of this rural zone.