Cuban film: La Ultima Cena (The Last Supper) screening and discussion
posted by megan | 13.10.2007 09:44 | London
Date: Sunday 14 October
Time: 10.30am for 11.00am
Venue: Curzon Renoir, Brunswick Centre, WC1N 1AW
Tube: Russell Square
Buses: 7, 59, 68, 91, 168, 188
Tickets £7.00
To book tickets call 0871 703 3991
(There is a £1.25 fee for telephone bookings. There is no booking fee for Curzon members.)
LA ULTIMA CENA
Certificate: 18
Duration: 120 min
Year: 1976
‘The Last Supper’ was made during the height of ‘the cold war’, showing a Cuba that was unknown and a history that was of little interest to audiences of that time. The meal of the title is provided by a slave owner to impress his slaves with his concern. We are shown that a Christian doctrine given to his slaves is in direct conflict with the work they have to do on the plantation.
The film opens a window onto a past, remembered in 2007 by some who celebrate the
bicentenary of 'the ending of the slave trade' but who forget that the abolition of slavery was a hard road fought for by slaves as portrayed by Alea.
The discussion will be led by Michael Chanan (Professor of Film and Video at Roehampton
University, London), Jacqui McKenzie (Caribbean Labour Solidarity), Dionne Walker (Lead Coordinator for the 1807-2007 Abolition Programme and Chair of Black History Month Steering Group for the London Borough of Camden) and Dr Stephen Wilkinson (Assistant Director of the International Institute for Cuban Sudies, London Metropolitan University).
Time: 10.30am for 11.00am
Venue: Curzon Renoir, Brunswick Centre, WC1N 1AW
Tube: Russell Square
Buses: 7, 59, 68, 91, 168, 188
Tickets £7.00
To book tickets call 0871 703 3991
(There is a £1.25 fee for telephone bookings. There is no booking fee for Curzon members.)
LA ULTIMA CENA
Certificate: 18
Duration: 120 min
Year: 1976
‘The Last Supper’ was made during the height of ‘the cold war’, showing a Cuba that was unknown and a history that was of little interest to audiences of that time. The meal of the title is provided by a slave owner to impress his slaves with his concern. We are shown that a Christian doctrine given to his slaves is in direct conflict with the work they have to do on the plantation.
The film opens a window onto a past, remembered in 2007 by some who celebrate the
bicentenary of 'the ending of the slave trade' but who forget that the abolition of slavery was a hard road fought for by slaves as portrayed by Alea.
The discussion will be led by Michael Chanan (Professor of Film and Video at Roehampton
University, London), Jacqui McKenzie (Caribbean Labour Solidarity), Dionne Walker (Lead Coordinator for the 1807-2007 Abolition Programme and Chair of Black History Month Steering Group for the London Borough of Camden) and Dr Stephen Wilkinson (Assistant Director of the International Institute for Cuban Sudies, London Metropolitan University).
posted by megan