The Carleton Film Seminar presents
Revolutionary Latin American Cinema

November 29, 2018 at 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
472 St. Patrick's Building
Cost: Free

Philip Kaisary, The Haitian Revolution and Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s La última cena (The Last Supper)

This talk considers the ideological resonance of the Haitian Revolution in Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s La última cena (The Last Supper), a masterpiece of Cuban cinema from 1976 in which slavery is unequivocally identified as capitalist. An elaborate meditation on revolutionary politics and the possibility of true liberation, La última cena repeatedly invokes the Haitian Revolution, and insists on the necessity of revolutionary social transformation and the dissolution by the oppressed of race- and class-based social hierarchies if the universal human desire for freedom is to be realized.

Philip Kaisary is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University.

Javier García León, Documenting Translocas in Colombian Cinema: The Case of Ana Crisitina Monroy’s Este pueblo necesita un Muerto (2007)

While there has been extensive scholarship on the representation of gay and lesbian individuals in major Latin American films, there has been little or no research that addresses the depiction of racialized transgender, or transloca, individuals in Colombian cinema. Therefore, this talk explores the representation of transloca women in Colombian documentaries. I argue that Este pueblo necesita un muerto portrays trans subjectivities and their temporalities from an intersectional, queer and decolonial perspective, contesting the way mass media represents these corporalities.

Javier García León holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies (Spanish) from the University of Ottawa.

Bagels, coffee, and tea will be served.

SP 472 is a barrier-free room accessed by an elevator. Service animals are welcome. Please contact laura.horak@carleton.ca by November 19 should you require ASL interpretation services or any other accommodation for this event.