[Frameworks] Hybrid Docs

[Jim Flannery]

Julien Temple's history of Cuba, "Habaneros", freely dumps into a
blender original newsreel footage, appropriated clips from other
documentary or narrative films made in or set in Cuba (or simply
illustrative of or punning on events in the voiceover) and his own
contemporary (Obama-era) street photography and interviews.

(e.g. In one of my favorite moments, a half-hour after he's included the
end of the endless sequence shot from the beginning of "I Am Cuba" when
the camera tracks out an open window to look straight down into a crowd,
he reproduces the shot with a drone, floating out over the same (but now
empty) street, without even making a comment in the narration. (It
sticks in my mind because I just saw the film, like, two days ago.))

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Best regards,
Jim Flannery
mailto:jim at newgrangemedia.com