Coming up at Antenna Selects:
EPICENTRO + Q&A
Sydney Premiere, 5:00pm Saturday 10 April
Join us at Palace Chauvel Cinema, for the Sydney Premiere of Epicentro. From world-renowned filmmaker Hubert Sauper – director of Sundance winner We Come as Friends and the Oscar-nominated Darwin’s Nightmare – comes an immersive and metaphorical portrait of post-colonial, “utopian” Cuba.
In 1898, the explosion of the USS Maine ended Spanish colonial dominance in the Americas and ushered in the era of the American Empire. At the same time and place, a powerful tool of conquest was born: cinema as propaganda. In Epicentro, Sauper explores a century of interventionism and myth-making together with the extraordinary people of Havana – particularly its children, who he calls “young prophets” – to interrogate time, imperialism, and cinema itself.
“At once mesmerizing and self-questioning.” – RogerEbert.com
“An intimate, fluid, ethereal film while still being sharp edged in condemnation of the globalization and colonial history. It’s one of the truly great documentaries of 2020.” — Screen Anarchy
“Combines the absurdist cinematic meditations of Werner Herzog with… John Gianvito’s poetic investigations into American imperialism.” — Boston Globe
