Faces of Cuba - footage and interviews from The Island
March 19, 2008 at 8:13 pm | In Social, Technology, Arts |
I’ve been doing some video work at home for an unrelated project, and came across some footage that I shot just over a year ago in Cuba. I wanted to use it as the beginning of a documentary about Cuba, a sort of question and answer session with everyday Cubans I’d met. It was an effort to document Cuba from the perspective of the people who live there.
As these things tend to do, it got buried behind other projects and work that I later focused on. Instead of letting the video collect dust, though, I’ve decided to put it all up here. The three posts below contain most of the footage, lightly edited.
The questions were very straightforward and apolitical - jobs, activities, plans. Dreams. The footage is mostly shot while traveling or walking around a city.
Lastly - and most importantly - I’ve decided to release all of the footage into the public domain. You can take the video, remix it, edit it, use it for your own purposes, etc. It belongs to the Public Domain. It would be cool if you could drop me an email or a comment if you do decide to use it for your own work, though - just to satisfy my curiosity.
You can download the entire clip (ignore most of the captions; they’re no longer valid) here at the Internet Archive.
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i m italian i followed your blog since you close it but today in a stupid search i see you again here,i went to cuba eight time for about more than a mounth eight time in a short time ninemy husband is cuban,for me it s normal that you need to write again on it,there is something in the islandpropably in thr cuban people that never live you any more,i travel a lot and i never feel at home,there i feel at home,i feel more close to the meaning of the life that is so simple i found the inner face of my human beeing and it s smiling,by monica please don t think about my bad emglish
I am happy to see you are still posting.
Nice of you to put your videos here.
Regards,
Al Godar
I wish you would post more often…this is my “coffee drinking” blog:) Edgar Allen
I tried to subscribe to your feed but it didn’t show up on my homepage at yahoo.com. Is it working correctly?
Interesting point of view. I’ll consider changing my mind about this but for now I still don’t see things the same way you do.
Linux is much better than the buggy and unreliable MS Vista. Two months ago I switched to Ubuntu Linux. I wish I had done it in 2004 when the first Ubuntu distribution came out. Try it, and you will love it. Easy to install too. Gotta go and get me mi morning cafecito Cubano.