'“Cuba hits you,” explain
Rosanna Webster and
Phoebe Henry, the directorial duo behind this new film: “it is a complete sensory overload.” This new visual essay accelerates down wild roads, careening through the streets of Havana, matching Webster and Henry’s aesthetic intuition—born from their work in fashion—with its own break-neck pace. With echoes of 1964's sensorial and deeply photogenic
I am Cuba,
A Portrait of Cuba conjures its own visceral hymn to a nation stepping through the 21st century. Unlike the monochrome of the earlier work, Webster and Henry’s cinematic poem bursts with richness and uncontrollable color.' --
Nowness
Published on November 20, 2017 17:03