Sara Gómez
Sara Gómez | |
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| Born | November 8, 1942 |
| Died | June 2, 1974 (aged 30–31) |
| Organization | ICAIC |
Sara Gómez (November 8, 1942 – June 2, 1974) was a Cuban filmmaker. Brought up in a middle-class black family in Havana, she studied literature, piano and Afro-Cuban ethnography. She worked as a journalist before joining the newly-formed ICAIC in 1961, where she subsequently served as assistant director to Jorge Fraga and Tomas Gutierrez Alea, as well as to the visiting French director Agnes Varda. One of only two black filmmakers at ICAIC at the time, and for several years its only woman director, Gomez made a series of documentary shorts on assigned topics before directing her first feature.
Contribution to Cuban Cinema
Gómez's last film, the 1974 hybrid narrative/documentary has been hailed as the "first movie to truly explore conflicting threads of racial and gender identity within a revolutionary context," [1] with noted Cuban film scholar Michael Chanan observing that the film is "an aesthetically radical film...mix[ing]...fiction and documentary, in the most original way...by using real people to play themselves alongside professional actors."[2]
Filmography
- Plaza Vieja; El solar; Historia de la piratería; Solar habanero (1962)
- Iré a Santiago (1964)
- Excursión a Vueltabajo (1965)
- Guanabacoa: Crónica de mi familia (1966)
- ... Y tenemos sabor (1967)
- En la otra isla; Una isla para Miguel (1968)
- Isla del tesoro (1969)
- Poder local, poder popular (1970)
- Un documental a propósito del tránsito; De bateyes (1971)
- Atención prenatal; Año uno; Mi aporte (1972)
- Sobre horas extras y trabajo voluntario (1973)
- De cierta manera (1977)
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