
{"id":293127,"date":"2023-12-14T13:58:11","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T18:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=293127"},"modified":"2023-12-14T13:58:11","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T18:58:11","slug":"ernesto-daranas-censorship-is-an-act-of-abuse-of-power-of-ignorance-of-arrogance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/culture\/cinema\/ernesto-daranas-censorship-is-an-act-of-abuse-of-power-of-ignorance-of-arrogance\/","title":{"rendered":"Ernesto Daranas: \u201cCensorship is an act of abuse of power, of ignorance, of arrogance\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the most significant events of this 44th edition of the International New Latin American Film Festival is the premiere of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/cultura\/cine\/un-cadaver-exquisito-en-el-festival-de-la-habana-daranas-landrian\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b><i>Landri\u00e1n<\/i><\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a documentary by Ernesto Daranas that aims to bring to the present the life and work of Nicol\u00e1s Guill\u00e9n Landri\u00e1n (Camag\u00fcey, 1938-Miami, 2003), the legendary director of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HvCAKRIp7Pc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b><i>Ociel del Toa<\/i><\/b><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=787253771660112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b><i>Coffea ar\u00e1biga<\/i><\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and one of the pioneers of Cuban cinema of the revolutionary era who, despite his immense creativity and talent, was subjected to censorship, ostracism, prison, and exile.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_293130\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-293130\" style=\"width: 1366px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/landrian3-1366x768-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-293130\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/landrian3-1366x768-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1366\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/landrian3-1366x768-1.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/landrian3-1366x768-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/landrian3-1366x768-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/landrian3-1366x768-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/landrian3-1366x768-1-750x422.jpg 750w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/landrian3-1366x768-1-1140x641.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1366px) 100vw, 1366px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-293130\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicol\u00e1s Guill\u00e9n Landri\u00e1n. Still from Daranas\u2019 documentary.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Until Daranas\u2019 piece was made, little was known about and less had been seen by Landri\u00e1n. Now, thanks to the dedicated rescue work in the ICAIC film archives, in the year of the twentieth anniversary of his death, a handful of works have managed to be saved that will surely soon be the subject of exhibitions inside and outside Cuba, as well as academic studies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the presentation words for <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Landri\u00e1n<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Daranas dedicated the film to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/cultura\/cine\/nuestro-cine-sera-libre-o-no-sera-que-es-la-asamblea-de-cineastas-cubanos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Assembly of Cuban Filmmakers<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, stressed that what happened to this director is not even remotely a thing of the past, and reaffirmed \u201cthe certainty that a film can change the world, even if it is for 90 minutes.\u201d Referring to the harmful role of censorship and exclusion, he said that \u201cthe real problem has never been in our films, but in the reality to which they are due.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The large audience that gathered this Sunday at the 23 y 12 movie theater rewarded the filmmaking team with a long ovation. Among those attending was Gretel Alfonso, widow of Nicol\u00e1s Guill\u00e9n Landri\u00e1n.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This Monday, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Landri\u00e1n<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> had its second showing within the Festival, this time at noon at the La Rampa movie theater.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here we collect the statements that Ernesto Daranas gave to <\/span><b>OnCuba<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> exclusively.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_293131\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-293131\" style=\"width: 1094px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/landrian7-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-293131\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/landrian7-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1094\" height=\"1600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/landrian7-1.jpg 1094w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/landrian7-1-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/landrian7-1-700x1024.jpg 700w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/landrian7-1-768x1123.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/landrian7-1-1050x1536.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/landrian7-1-750x1097.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1094px) 100vw, 1094px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-293131\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Poster for the exhibition in Cuba of the documentary \u201cLandri\u00e1n.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>Nicol\u00e1s Guill\u00e9n Landri\u00e1n is one of the myths of Cuban cinema. The uniqueness of his work, almost all of which has disappeared, and his fast-paced personality, of overflowing creativity, have contributed to this; attractive to some and intolerable to others. In your opinion, what is the weight of Nicolasito in the history of Cuban cinema? Do you think that the interest that the most recent generations of filmmakers now feel will continue to grow?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Landri\u00e1n is most likely the filmmaker with the greatest influence on Cuban cinema of the 21st century. And it is not just about that morbid fascination that censorship always generates, but about the singularity of his view, between a cinema fundamentally marked by realism and the maelstrom of the first years of the Revolution when several of our most important filmmakers were consecrated. During the fieldwork to prepare the restoration of his films, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/cultura\/enrique-pineda-barnet-un-hombre-del-renacimiento-en-la-cultura-cubana\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Enrique Pineda Barnet<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> told me: \u201cIn the middle of a stampede towards the future, Landri\u00e1n was the filmmaker who stopped to think. That\u2019s why they crushed him.\u201d And so it was, at a time when we were not allowed the hint of a doubt, Landri\u00e1n asked himself: \u201cWhere are we going?\u201d Today the answer is visible. That explains part of his validity and why his work continues to be censored.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_293136\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-293136\" style=\"width: 1366px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/landrian6-1366x768-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-293136\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/landrian6-1366x768-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1366\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/landrian6-1366x768-1.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/landrian6-1366x768-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/landrian6-1366x768-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/landrian6-1366x768-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/landrian6-1366x768-1-750x422.jpg 750w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/landrian6-1366x768-1-1140x641.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1366px) 100vw, 1366px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-293136\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Landri\u00e1n controlling the photography in one of his films. Still from Daranas\u2019 documentary.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>Will films like <\/b><b><i>En un barrio viejo<\/i><\/b><b> (1963), <\/b><b><i>Ociel del Toa<\/i><\/b><b> (1965) and <\/b><b><i>Coffea ar\u00e1biga<\/i><\/b><b> (1968) become considered classics of our cinema?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They already are in their own right, and not only for their insight and artistic flight but also for the utmost respect with which [Landri\u00e1n] knew how to look at us as a people, for the depth with which he scrutinized our gazes, our bewilderment in the face of the turbulence of everything that was happening.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In one way or another, that perspective is present in a good part of the documentary cinema of new generations of filmmakers. That commitment to the individual over the mass, that inquiry into our drama and our self-esteem as a people are some of the identity marks of the new Cuban cinema that dialogue closely with the filmmaker\u2019s legacy.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_293135\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-293135\" style=\"width: 1366px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/landrian2-1366x768-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-293135\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/landrian2-1366x768-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1366\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/landrian2-1366x768-1.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/landrian2-1366x768-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/landrian2-1366x768-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/landrian2-1366x768-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/landrian2-1366x768-1-750x422.jpg 750w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/landrian2-1366x768-1-1140x641.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1366px) 100vw, 1366px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-293135\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still from \u201cOciel del Toa\u201d (1965), documentary by Nicol\u00e1s Guill\u00e9n Landri\u00e1n.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>Is <\/b><b><i>Landri\u00e1n<\/i><\/b><b> the result of recent discoveries of this author\u2019s mistreated work or was the effort to rescue what time had not yet devoured in the precarious vaults of the ICAIC a dramaturgical requirement of the documentary\u2019s initial budget?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I wasn\u2019t planning to make this film. My initial objective with the \u201cLandri\u00e1n Project\u201d was limited to searching and rescuing what I could of his work. It was the loneliness of the pandemic and the very persistence of censorship that moved me to make this documentary. Gretel Alfonso, Landri\u00e1n\u2019s widow, and Livio Delgado, the photographer of several of his films, were part of that restoration work and it seemed to us that their testimonies had a lot to say not only about the life and work of Landri\u00e1n, but about Cuban cinema\u2019s present itself in general.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_293134\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-293134\" style=\"width: 1366px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/landrian1-1366x768-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-293134\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/landrian1-1366x768-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1366\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/landrian1-1366x768-1.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/landrian1-1366x768-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/landrian1-1366x768-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/landrian1-1366x768-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/landrian1-1366x768-1-750x422.jpg 750w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/landrian1-1366x768-1-1140x641.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1366px) 100vw, 1366px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-293134\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Review and rescue process of the work of Nicol\u00e1s Guill\u00e9n Landri\u00e1n in the ICAIC archives.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>At a time when the Assembly of Cuban Filmmakers is determined to heal its relations with cultural institutions, based on the latter\u2019s abandonment of practices as authoritarian and deep-rooted as censorship, what does it mean to bring Guill\u00e9n Landrian\u2019s life and work to our days? Do you think it contributes to dialogue between the parties or deepens the rift between them?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I think it helps to understand the futility of censorship. Despite the enormous human and social damage that censorship generates, good art will always prevail against all odds. Although its pretext is almost always political, in reality, censorship is an act of abuse of power, ignorance, and arrogance. As we mentioned in the presentation of the film, history cannot be distorted and rewritten at will. The memory of justice exists and Landri\u00e1n is the proof.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Assembly of Filmmakers itself is the expression of the memory of a union. As happens in our people, the Assembly is very diverse, it is made up of filmmakers of all generations, ideologies, and tendencies, regardless of their place of residence. What unites us is a group of common objectives around our cinema that, inevitably, transcend the civic, around that demand for a model of real participation in which leaders and officials are finally understood as the public servants who they truly are. That would be the basis for a truly horizontal dialogue. And, of course, those who understand that such an aspiration is a utopia are not without reason, but we are also not without reason when we assume our right to insist on a form of true participation.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_293133\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-293133\" style=\"width: 1366px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/landrian4-1366x768-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-293133\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/landrian4-1366x768-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1366\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/landrian4-1366x768-1.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/landrian4-1366x768-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/landrian4-1366x768-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/landrian4-1366x768-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/landrian4-1366x768-1-750x422.jpg 750w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/landrian4-1366x768-1-1140x641.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1366px) 100vw, 1366px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-293133\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leitmotiv shot of \u201cLandri\u00e1n,\u201d documentary by Ernesto Daranas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>If there was a scale from 1 to 10 to measure emotion, what level did you reach last night when the documentary was shown for the first time before its natural audience, who rewarded it with prolonged applause?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s not easy to fill a movie theater with a documentary, and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Landri\u00e1n<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> had a lot to do with that. Of course, I was very happy with the public\u2019s reaction, and I like to think that Landri\u00e1n felt the same, because to some extent the documentary we made is also a spiritual mass. There are now ten of his films restored that were on the verge of being lost. Many people left the cinema last night wanting to see those movies. That is the most beautiful thing of all, the persistence of art in the face of the futility of censorship.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_293132\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-293132\" style=\"width: 1366px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/landrian5-1366x768-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-293132\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/landrian5-1366x768-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1366\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/landrian5-1366x768-1.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/landrian5-1366x768-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/landrian5-1366x768-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/landrian5-1366x768-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/landrian5-1366x768-1-750x422.jpg 750w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/landrian5-1366x768-1-1140x641.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1366px) 100vw, 1366px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-293132\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still from the documentary \u201cEn un barrio viejo\u201d (1963), by Nicol\u00e1s Guill\u00e9n Landri\u00e1n.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>Was the screening this December 10, at the 23 y 12 movie theater, the world premiere of the work or has it already begun its festival tour? If it is the latter, what impact has it had?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Landri\u00e1n<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. Never before had a documentary of ours been part of the official selection of the oldest film festival in the world. The reaction there was identical to the one you saw last night. Landri\u00e1n\u2019s vision is absolutely universal and his artistic legacy transcends the impact he has on us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Although you debuted in cinema as a documentary filmmaker, you are best known for three fiction feature films, in my opinion, of excellent quality: <\/b><b><i>Los dioses rotos<\/i><\/b><b> (2009), <\/b><b><i>Conducta<\/i><\/b><b> (2014) and <\/b><b><i>Sergio y Serguei<\/i><\/b><b> (2016). Do you have more non-fiction projects in the immediate plans? Are you working on a new feature film? Can you tell us something, even if it\u2019s only in the script phase?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I have several fiction projects in progress, but documentaries have once again robbed me of a lot of energy in recent years. It is a genre that I enjoy and that is more feasible in these times of crisis. Among the fiction projects, there is everything from comedies to much more personal and minimalist stories.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLandri\u00e1n\u201d had its second showing as part of the 44th edition of the Havana Film Festival at the La Rampa movie theater.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3770,"featured_media":293129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13921],"tags":[14978,3886,19256,4454,34597],"ppma_author":[34037],"class_list":["post-293127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cinema","tag-cuban-cinema","tag-ernesto-daranas-en","tag-featured","tag-icaic-en","tag-nicolas-guillen-landrian"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ernesto Daranas: 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