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Volume 14, Issue 2
  • ISSN: 2045-6298
  • E-ISSN: 2045-6301

Abstract

This article centres on (2001), the final moving image work by the Cuban filmmaker Nicolás Guillén Landrián. In collaboration with Jorge Egusquiza Zorrilla, the documentary is the filmmaker’s only audio-visual work produced from exile in Miami. Taking as a starting point, the article will explore the intermedial ‘dialogue’ between the filmmaker’s work as a painter and his cinematic oeuvre. This intermedial dialogue allows us to construct a continuity in Guillén Landrián’s creative practice, where previous critics have instead detected a gap or ‘silence’ in his cinematographic work. I will argue that the encounter between cinema and painting also acts as a conceptual space to consider the temporal intervention enacted by restoration as a collective and individual ritual.

Funding
This study was supported by the:
  • 2022 College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences ‘Impact Fund’ at the University of Edinburgh
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