Kino Lorber has announced the North American virtual theatrical release of Epicentro, the Cuban portrait by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Hubert Sauper led by the extraordinary people of Havana. Winner of the Sundance World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary the film premieres Friday, August 28 in virtual cinemas through Kino Marquee.
Epicentro is an immersive and metaphorical portrait of post-colonial, “utopian” Cuba, where the 1898 explosion of the USS Maine still resonates. This Big Bang 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 his latest film, filmmaker Sauper (Darwin’s Nightmare) explores a century of interventionism and myth-making together with the extraordinary people of Havana—who he calls “young prophets"—to interrogate time, imperialism and cinema itself.
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