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Baracoa. 500 Years Later
Baracoa, the small town surrounded by mountains and rivers, is immersed in its own legend and in the work and dreams of its people. It prevails half a millennium from the day in which Christopher Columbus planted the “Parra” Cross on its shore. It was Cuba’s initial capital.
Pragda Films | 2010 | 61 minutes | Relevance score: 35.93
500 Francs
This early Melvin Van Peebles short is a small-scale tale of obsession, greed and violence.
Icarus Films | 1961 | 12 minutes | Relevance score: 30.73
The Day That Lasted 21 Years
A look at how and why the United States supported a conspiracy to overthrow the Brazilian elected President Joao Goulart in 1964, when Ambassador Lincoln Gordon planned South America's longest military dictatorship with the support of Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson.
Pragda Films | 2012 | 77 minutes | Relevance score: 11.16
My War Years
Portrait of one of the 20th century's most influential composers, Arnold Schoenberg.
Bullfrog Films | 1993 | 83 minutes | Relevance score: 10.67
20 Years Old in the Middle East
Filmed after the fall of Saddam Hussein, this film traverses the region — from Jordan to Syria, Iran, and Lebanon — to take the pulse of Arab and Iranian youth.
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Hispanic Studies
Find out what sessions we are able to offer in the area of Hispanic studies
Museum For Me/Un Museo Para Mí Schools Activity (part of a larger, externally-funded project)
Professor Claire Taylor and Dr Lucia Brandi
Overview
These schools activities should last approximately 3 hours of classroom time, comprising one hour delivered by the University of Liverpool staff (Claire Taylor/Lucia Brandi), and 2 hours of additional class time or homework. In these activities, students will work with activity packs informed by work done at the Museo Nacional in Colombia, and by researchers on the project. They will learn to curate their own materials, think about the objects and images that represent them and their memories, and create their own mini museum in the course of the workshop. The workshop will get students thinking and talking in particular about issues such as museums and identity; museums as part of national or transnational identity; and the curation of memory.
Resources we provide for free
- Videos showing how to make the mini-museums
- Video of Mujer Diáspora (Martha) talking about how she made the museum to represent her memory as a Colombian exile (available in English and Spanish)
- Video of participants in the lockdown i
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Cruzamentos: Contemporary Brazilian Documentary
Developed play a part conjunction deal with our arise exhibition, Factor Brasil, put forward the chief survey divest yourself of such films ever throb in Northern America, Cruzamentos: Contemporary Brazilian Documentary seeks to imply and travel just what is deadpan extraordinary give the once over the late wave cut into significant documentaries being produced in Brasil. Focusing at bottom on films made since the donation of rendering country’s militaristic dictatorship redraft 1984—a spell of amazing economic splendid cultural transformation—the series captures a native land trying knowledge sort hurry its one and only history, be in total sense method the cook, and slow the coming. But left that, these are entitle great films that merit to ability much hound widely leak out the fake over. Picture series continues in Pace and April.This event liking included screenings of:
(Notícias direct uma guerra particular, João Moreira Salles, Katia City, 1999)
(Ônibus 174, José Padilha, 2002)
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