February 2018

 

BLACK CUBA III

Friday 02.02.2018 7:00 PM | Saal

Admission: €10

Organizer: Werkstatt der Kulturen/ Ricardo Bacallao

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Film screening

 

  

Offering to Yemaya
Dir.: Ricardo Bacallao. 14 minutes

Every January 1st in Cuba devotees to Yemaya go the sea to offer respect to the Orisha, goddess of the sea. This is an observational documentary, focussing on showing this ritual.

Brazil meets Cuba
Dir: Ricardo Bacallao, 50 minutes

The encounter of Brazilians and Cubans at the WERKSTATT DER KULTUREN playing to the same African Gods (Orishas) but with different beats.
After the film screening:

 

Live performance

Angel Candeaux and Friends

Angel Candeaux describes himself as a dreamer with many overlapping searches going on inside him, the main one being discovering the answer to the question “who am I exactly?” It was with the conviction of an inquisitive dreamer that he decided to embark on his professional career.

 

 


Ricardo Bacallao

  

Ricardo Bacallao, a Cuban filmmaker, received his MFA in film from NYU. While living in Madrid and Berlin, Ricardo participated at the Berlin Film Festival several times, including being selected as the first Cuban representative to the festival's Talent Campus in 2003 and 2004.

In 2010, a segment Ricardo produced for CUNY TV's magazine show Nueva York won a New York Emmy Award. Since that time, he has been working as a freelance director, DP, producer and editor of documentary shorts both commercially and for broadcast on stations such as CUNY TV, HITN, and at New York based exhibition spaces.

Ricardo Bacallao is finishing his first feature film "The Uncle's Request".

 


 

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The facilities of the WERKSTATT DER KULTUREN are accessible to wheelchair users. Please call us in advance on +49 (0)30 60 97 70-0 to ensure proper access support.

 

 

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