This short film asks us to consider the colours of Cuba: the variety of colours of the tobacco in their cigars; the multicultural array of colours of its people; the colours of socialism and the colours of the capitalists who are making it a tourist haven. Filmed largely in one of Havana’s biggest cigar producing factories, this film is also a celebration of a revolutionary culture where workers and working life has not become exclusively mechanised and rationalised. A vibrant celebration of Cuba, workers, unionism and the much maligned tobacco leaf.
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In ACMI's collection
Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
315227
Language
English
Subject categories
Amateur & Student Films → Student films - Australia
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Cuba
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Ethnicity
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Communism
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Cuba - Politics and government
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Ethnicity
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Labor and laboring classes
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
VHS; Access Print (Section 1)