"DIARY OF RECORDS SEPT 2007-SEPT 2008" "DURING THE PRESENTATION OF A FILM" "29th AUGUST MONDAY" "...Five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten." "5th SEPTEMBER WEDNESDAY" "We're in Venice because José Luis's film has been selected." "And why are you here with me?" "Because you're kindly lending us your room." "Isn't it because you are actresses in my film?" "Oh, yes." "Yes, okay." "As it happens." "You should sing "ding, dang, dong" higher, and I'll sing it low." "So it contrasts." "What do you mean "higher"?" "Like this..." "But it's a shame it's such a rubbish song." "Don't you know any others that we can sing in a round?" "How does it go?" "My make up is not very good." "One eye points in and the other points out." "You've been really patient..." "It's Tanja!" "I know, I was explaining to Charlotte." "I'm a naturally tidy person, but I always go with untidy people." "Are we ready to go?" "Yes, almost." "It's all really last minute." "Charlotte Dupont." "What did I say?" "She did warn us." "Can you sing "Les Demoiselles de Rochefort"?" "I lost my camera, so we took longer." "And I'm hungry." "Tanja is always last." "The projectionist will be angry with Tanja because we're late." "6th SEPTEMBER THURSDAY" "Good afternoon, lady." "10th SEPTEMBER MONDAY" "12th SEPTEMBER WEDNESDAY" "Good morning." "Joining us today is José Luis Guerin, someone at the forefront of a major theme in cinema today, the boundaries between documentary and fiction, where does documentary end and where does fiction begin?" "All your films play on this idea... 13th SEPTEMBER THURSDAY" "We're comm¡tted!" "We're not dangerous!" "Paperless and comm¡tted!" "We're not dangerous!" "Comm¡tted ¡mm¡grants!" "We're not dangerous!" "Comm¡tted, not dangerous!" "We're not dangerous!" "What do we want?" "Res¡dency!" "." "For whom?" "For all!" "lnternment camps!" "Not for us!" "Res¡dency papers!" "For all unoffic¡al res¡dents!" "No, no, no!" "To expuls¡on!" "Res¡dency papers!" "For all unoffic¡al res¡dents!" "No, no, no!" "To expuls¡on!" "Res¡dency papers!" "For all unoffic¡al res¡dents!" "16th SEPTEMBER SUNDAY" "Lad¡es and gentlemen, we're suffer¡ng turbulences." "Get back to your seats and fasten your belts." "Thank you." "18th SEPTEMBER TUESDAY" "Hello, we have the honour today of introducing José Luis Guerin." "I want to start off with a question" "I'm sure we all want to ask." "How much fiction is there in your documentaries, and how much documentary in your fiction?" "Look at the camera, please." "Dou you want me to step aside?" "No, it's alright." "Got it." "Got it?" "Yes, sir." "Look over here." "Smile, don't close your eyes." "Put your arms down." "Look at the camera." "Corn for the pigeons!" "The view is pretty from here." "I managed to raise them by selling corn." "I sold corn, balloons, fantasy dolls." "And then I got into taking photos." "You know?" "What's the secret of a good portrait?" "I've got many secrets." "Who's coming?" "lt was the President of Mexico." "Of Mexico?" "ls that the mayor?" "No, the president of Mexico." "Which one is it?" "Ah, yes, I see him." "I imagine he's that one." "The one next to the grey-haired guy." "ls that him?" "Yes, Felipe Calderón." "We cover this when it rains, and it's drizzling..." "When it's overcast and raining you can't work." "She blushed." "What rank?" "Corporal, 3rd class." "Ah!" "Ah, what?" "No, but..." "Neither of us likes the rumba or anything like that." "Are you Evangelists?" "No." "My health?" "It's not great." "Didn't I tell you I'm a cancer patient?" "I'm a patient at the Cancer Institute." "I've had chemotherapy, radiotherapy, electrotherapy..." "I'm a miracle." "I'm one of God's miracles." "Medical science gave me a maximum life expectancy of six months at the very most." "But God gives life, He takes it away and He gives it back." "And, through radiotherapy, chemo, electro therapy and surgery," "He gave me back my life." "ln my second phase of radiotherapy, lying prostrate in bed," "I wrote this poem:" ""Thank you, Dear Lord, for the sense of touch, through which, using my hands and my fingers," "I can feel this electrifying sensation from my sweetheart, as I touch her body, before the communion of love, in order to procreate and continue the cycle of life, as you ask us to, God in Heaven."" ""Prayer", "Oh, Love"," ""To my father"," ""Return"," ""Nostalgia for my childhood", "When I met you"," ""Wife"," ""Secret"." "This one's really beautiful." "It's a poem I wrote for lovers." "These days, lovers' romances are common, secret romances." "They're very common these days." "I haven't heard any of them, though I knew he sold little poems." "Are you married?" "No, separated." "And she suddenly has a new partner..." "That hurts." "That's important." "If your house isn't in order, nothing else in your life will be." "A very pretty woman, very elegant." "If the man had been married, perhaps this wouldn't have happened." "I didn't say: "Yes, I want us to get married soon too."" "I should have thought of that, because we had a good home and both our daughters in school." "I've got a family too, I have a daughter." "The youngest one is in school, and she wanted me to go to her First Communion, which was at her school." "And I was in really bad shape, this was two or three years ago." "I was scruffy." "I know the school, because Rocío, the older girl, studied there, and it is full of wealthy people and that's a smart ceremony." "I was scruffy." "How could I go?" "I didn't want her to feel ashamed." "You didn't go?" "No, I didn't." "So then the last thing she said to me was:" ""I want you to be there, whatever it takes!"" "And she hung up." "The amount of pain and suffering stored up inside people is amazing." "That's why I write things which comfort people and ease their painful feelings." "I can't find her, I don't know where she lives." "And she doesn't want to have anything to do with me now." "They're fine, they're absolutely fine." "But then I start thinking how I'm not well off now." "I need to smarten myself up." "This is the liberator Simón Bolívar, on his horse, Palomo." "He spared the lives of the royalists." "Then, in 1851 , President José Hilario López declared the abolition of slavery across the country." "He decreed the famous Law of the Free Womb, which stated that all children born to slaves, born here in Colombia, were born free." "They were still slaves, but their baby was free." "That's why we see the father kneeling, thanking him for their liberation, and the mother, reading a text in homage to the liberator." "This was the first statue in the world of Simón Bolívar." "A gentleman called José Ignacio París went to Rome and he met the great sculptor Pietro Tenerani." ""Make me a statue of this man, he's liberated five countries." "His name is Simón Bolívar."" "Tenerani never met him and never left Rome." "Since he was liberator of five countries, he thought he was like his emperors." "If you know about History," "Bolívar was big as a liberator, but in stature he was small." "He was 5 feet tall, and he took size 3." "But look at him from any angle, it's a plagiarism of emperor Julius Caesar." "Everything from the neck down is Roman." "The pose, the robes, the height, even the manuscript in his left hand." "Imagine it with the head of that crazy ltalian Caesar, it's the same." "The crest on his chest is that of George Washington." "If you film there, that's his sphinx." "There are many hidden treasures here." "Under that dome." "There's a myth that a dome will open in many years time, when we disappear." "There are emeralds and gold, and great stories about what we were in the past." "They realised that we had the great gold here." "And that's when the corruption started." "For example, they showed a mirror to a native, and the native was shocked because he'd never seen himself." "They got to the stage where they swapped the little mirror for a lump of gold." "I'm pleased that the Spanish came here to America and discovered us." "They didn't come here to kill, they came to learn and investigate." "Did the Queen of Spain send an assassin to conquer us?" "No, no, no." "That's a myth." "The pirates took the gold." "A president shouldn't just think about 10, 20, 1 ,000 or 100,000 inhabitants, but about the whole country, and not just about today, but about the country in 10 years time." "You have to think about the land." "When they spray glyphosate, they destroy the local economy." "When Uribe fumigates coca fields..." "He's with the paramilitary." "Displaced people's land, dead people's land..." "Who gets that land?" "The State gets the land." "Why are people displaced?" "Why are peasants being killed?" "To take over their livestock, their oil, their riches." "That's why." "They have to come back to take possession of their land." "To those who died, to their families and the other doesn't say a thing..." "I don't get a thing, just as the peasants or the kidnapped." "What did you get?" "You don't care about the kidnapped because you've got peace, liberty." "But I can't defend him, because I suffer for the kidnapped." "WE DEMAND LEGALSTABlLlTY in THE PEACE PROCESS" "Not even a quarter of the square." "What can they do with 200?" "Not even 200. 100, at the most." "They don't even fill a half of the square." "If they had used gas, everyone would have left." "Everyone on the bed or everyone on the ground." "The only way to bring down a government like that is by getting together, joining forces, so there's no transport, no planes, no markets, no buses, no offices or warehouses." "The government would fall in three days." "They are less than 200." "Accord yes, war no." "Accord yes, war no." "Ur¡be, Marulanda, the people are ¡n command!" "These marks on the ground were made by a grenade." "10 years ago, a mule loaded with explosives was heading for the palace." "The animal stopped here, exploded and killed three people." "These are the marks left by a grenade." "This is a country of violent people." "Friend, brother, kidnapped son, we are your family, we demand your freedom." "Many Colomblans say they support the Army and the pol¡ce." "They're I¡ars." "They don't support them." "They're just shouting to start a war." "But when they're mutilated, or m¡ss¡ng, when they're ¡njured, when they're k¡dnapped, all Colomb¡ans forget them and resent them." "And they vil¡fy us, the¡r fam¡I¡es, for demanding a human¡tarian accord." "I'm an artist, but look at this pencil!" "No one collaborates because I look scruffy." "It's been a while." "I don't know the demands." "The FARC's main demand is for the release of prisoners, but I don't think the government can do that, because they would keep on kidnapping and demanding." "The world development..." "The one who's starving knows it." "But the one who hasn't lived it..." "Where are the morals of this country?" "The State!" "An intelligent president censors pornography." "Álvaro Uribe has been heading the narco-paramilitary mandate in Colombia for the last ten years." "But there's education." "Anything is possible." "It's all porno, and internet..." "Any family can get a home, it's easy." "And what about displaced farmers?" "Thank God, for this beautiful and marvellous country." "There will be war, hunger, plagues, earthquakes, epidemics, all kinds of illnesses..." "Stop here." "Ready?" "Here come the pigeons." "Ready?" "4th OCTOBER THURSDAY" "I HAD NQWHERE TQ GQ By Jonas Mekas." "8th OCTOBER MONDAY" "22nd NOVEMBER THURSDAY" "EXlTTO NEW YORK" "NEW YORK" "La Segunda!" "We read awful newspapers which teach you how to speak like they do in Chilean prisons." "But a paper like La Tercera or La Segunda can enrich your vocabulary." "For toothpaste, for example:" "people say "Colgate", but Argentineans don't say "Colgate", they say Col-ga-te, because it's written Col-ga-te." "We Chileans always pretend to be foreigners, when we're Chileans." "We are a mix of two cultures:" "A very brave people, the Mapuche, and the Spanish, who couldn't defeat them." "And I'm sorry to say, but I don't think the brave part came from Spain." "Don't forget that Spain was ruled for 500 years by the the Turks... the Arabs." "There were epic and historical military campaigns, where the Spanish did very well." "But here, in South America, they sent their worst men, guys who'd been galley slaves and prisoners, men condemned to death..." "But that's the difference between us, the Mapuche people, and the Aztecs or the Incas:" "they had kings, so it was easy to kill the leader and rule his people." "People living here lived in an absolutely communal way, in the forests..." "They were invincible." "It was the prototype of a communist society: they shared everything." "We think we are in the First World, and we aren't." "We are completely cut off from our brothers in Peru, Bolivia and Brazil." "When the big foreign companies are taking everything away, when even water has been nationalized, that's incredible." "I think the US are hurt because they didn't sink Cuba, because they couldn't do it." "And it's only 90 miles away." "23rd NOVEMBER FRIDAY" "portraits" "Neither the idolaters, nor the adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor those who sleep with men, nor thieves, nor misers, nor drunkards, like the man shouting over there, shall enter the Kingdom of Heaven." "Because not just anyone gets in there." "You know what?" "Christ loves..." "God loves everyone!" "God loves the sinner, but God loathes sin." "Do you know why the Devil hangs around people who drink alcohol?" "Because the Devil knows by the Bible that drunkards don't go to Heaven." "But that's why we're here to preach the truth." "We're here to preach the truth, because the gospel is true." "And Christ is true!" "Christ is not a lie!" "You have to convert, because the end is nigh, a terrible fate awaits this nation and the entire world." "Convert to God because the day is near." "Look, you cannot escape from God." "You were born into the Church and you can't escape God." "Do you know why?" "Because God knows you." "And God loves you!" "God loves you!" "But God loathes the evil in you." "What evil?" "God loathes your sin." "What evil have I done?" "The cowards are going to burn!" "Drunkards, adulterers, thieves, homosexuals..." "portraits" "I'd like to see your film." "lt's on at the festival." "Ah, at the festival?" "Cinema is a wonderful thing." "Painting is." "Yes, painting is also fantastic." "Painting is the queen of the Arts." "A lot of people say it's music, but I think painting is the queen." "Because painting is the work of one man all on his own, that's all it takes." "Like the Lumière brothers' operators, who carried the camera around with them." "They even carried the tripod, as if it were an easel." "Like a painter." "I do portraits to try to capture the person's gestures." "The Spanish are masters of portrait." "Velázquez and José Ribera were great at capturing expressions." "25th NOVEMBER SUNDAY" "Up a bit more." "ls that okay?" "Like that." "ls that okay?" "Yes." "Th¡s was the damage done by the ra¡n." "But w¡th the arr¡val of the storms, the r¡sk of I¡ghtn¡ng ¡ncreases too." "Every year, 40 m¡ll¡on, yes, you heard r¡ght, 40 m¡ll¡on bolts of I¡ghtn¡ng str¡ke the country and can k¡ll people." "The I¡ghtn¡ng season has begun ¡n Brazil." "It happens because hum¡d¡ty and temperature... lt's the I¡ghtn¡ng." "28th NOVEMBER WEDNESDAY" "I BUY GOLD" "People don't know who God is." "lt's true!" "But, wait, isn't an animal irrational?" "How does it know its master?" "How does it know its master?" "And you don't know who God is." "Despite your culture." "Your culture, before God, is nothing!" "Noah, announce the Great Flood!" "I'll assume it!" "Announce the Great Flood!" "I'll assume it!" "The Great Flood!" "I'll open Heaven's taps!" "Drama, Noah!" "Drama!" "He says only those in the Ark will be saved." "Noah announced the Flood two years before." "He announced it two years before." "The Great Flood." "He announced the Great Flood!" ""My girlfriend, pregnant?" "No!"" "Joseph:" ""My girlfriend, pregnant?" "No!"" "Read..." "ln his..." "He left her in secret to avoid a scandal." "ln his dreams... ln his dreams, an angel appeared and said..." "I'm going to stop drinking now." "Leave the music for a while." "Hey, brother, stop distracting people." "I'm not talking to the trees," "I'm talking to human beings." "You human beings who walk around the Plaza da Sé!" "Not believing in Jesus is a great sin!" "I heard them say h¡s cucumber ¡s green" "G¡rl, woman, ch¡ld just ask and I say..." "I I¡ke that boy, I always have." "I have four k¡ds ¡n the reformatory, the government ra¡ses them." "He's celebrating, I'll s¡ng for h¡m." "H¡s willy ¡s sk¡nny, but ¡t w¡ll grow," "Not at all I¡ke th¡s gentleman's d¡ck, long until the metro and the tra¡n to Mauá." "Here comes the fat boy, out of the crowd, he's not only ugly, but he wants to rob us." "You go prowl¡ng wh¡le people are s¡ng¡ng, the fat boy ¡s prowl¡ng I¡ke a pass¡on fru¡t." "The way I see ¡t, he looks a b¡t fat." "My I¡tte d¡ck ¡s soft, so I'll shake my belly." "He's my buddy, but bean stew" "¡s the worst th¡ng to fill that belly w¡th." "And the long-ha¡red girl looks very pretty, but her lipstick alone costs a thousand reais." "I don't know ¡f that brother ¡s María or Mar¡stela, and ¡f that's her son or that other girl's." "I'm go¡ng to s¡ng ¡n the favela, I'll ¡mprov¡se." "The brunette ¡s no use, she's got noth¡ng for you." "He dr¡nks strong I¡quor and gets real drunk." "He th¡nks cachaça ¡s banana and the end ¡s n¡gh." "Look, Qlegar¡o ¡s leaving, and he'll end up bare-bottomed." "I'll f¡n¡sh off the rhyme, you're out of t¡me." "Down by the shore." "I know that h¡s d¡ck has shrunk and he can't fuck anymore." "He's look¡ng for a fa¡r wh¡le the others are go¡ng to fuck." "Not one traveller going from Judea to Gal¡lee wanted to pass through Samaria." "Samaria was an undes¡rable place w¡th ser¡ous problems." "Samar¡a was a place where there were many th¡eves, many marg¡nal¡zed people, and all travellers who had to pass through that reg¡on tr¡ed to avo¡d the place." "But the B¡ble says that Jesus felt a need to go to Samar¡a." "I'm talk¡ng about the I¡berator of Israel, the man who changed H¡story, who changed the h¡story of all of us!" "Make the most of th¡s opportun¡ty!" "." "Let's pass the m¡crophone so you may pray." "Come!" "Who knows ¡f ¡t w¡ll be your last chance." "Come, don't be ashamed!" "Be ashamed only of s¡n!" "Qf doing bad th¡ngs." "You say you love God and you buy TV sets and DVDs of dishonourable women to watch at home." "What do you expect from the word of God?" "Cursed devils!" "You will learn to obey the Lord!" "Where are the authorities to confiscate these DVDs?" "He beats down the evil." "He k¡lis, he hurts, but he g¡ves I¡fe too because he has the author¡ty, the power, he makes a w¡nner out of a loser, to show the ¡mmens¡ty of h¡s love" "because" "He's the Lord." "I found him first and he grabbed me." "He pushed me." "I'm going to hit him." "He grabbed my arm and I don't like that." "He grabbed me like this." "God bless me..." "He pushed me." "He pushed me." "...above all and everyone ¡s the Lord." "Nobody can stop H¡m when He wants to act." "He can even br¡ng a dead man back to I¡fe to show the great author¡ty of H¡s hand." "He's b¡gger than anyone, and Jesus ¡s also the Lord of everyth¡ng." "He k¡lis, he hurts, but he g¡ves I¡fe too because he has the author¡ty, the power." "He makes a w¡nner out of a loser to show the ¡mmens¡ty of H¡s love because" "He's the Lord." "He's the Lord." "Glory to God!" "29th NOVEMBER THURSDAY" "MACAU film AND video lNTERNATlONAL festival" "The wind is coming." "The storm is coming." "There are leaks." "The other houses have tiled roofs, but we have leaks." "I have to live here, I pay no rent or taxes." "This is one of the oldest houses." "How long have you been living here?" "They've been here as long as I've lived here." "How long has that been?" "About 20 years." "When she was a baby, I held her in my arms just here." "Don't you have a common neighbourhood?" "Did the settlers leave you the most important things?" "This is Mr. Ma." "He's a photographer." "If you want to know more, he'll tell you." "He's a photographer." "He knows more, he's an expert." "He knows more than we do." "Do you want to know some history?" "Yes." "Yes." "He's come from Spain for the film festival." "He wants to film here, but all he can find is casinos." "He has tons of old photos." "I have lots." "Come with me." "He's old." "No one knows our history better than him." "He's been living here for a long time." "We used this to mill the grain." "We used this to feed ourselves." "How did you meet your wife?" "I saw her in a photo and we got married immediately." "They say people used to meet their husband or wife in a photo." "Yes, I didn't see her before the wedding." "She died 37 years ago." "I'm an old man." "I'm ugly now." "I wouldn't want her to see me like this." "Sure..." "How could she marry you without knowing you?" "She didn't know me and I didn't know her." "How old were you when you first met her?" "Twenty." "So you first saw her the day of the wedding?" "We didn't know what to talk about." "How did you talk the first time?" "We were embarrassed." "It was embarrassing back then." "Now it's different." "And what's this?" "This is where my wife and I came." "She used to sleep here." "There was a bed." "I've made alterations by myself." "I've fixed the wall too." "I like learning new things." "I also made that." "And the cupboard." "I bought the materials at the street market." "There are many shelves." "I cover it up with a picture." "There's oxid." "You focus like this." "To take good photos, you have to know the technique." "I have a lot of photos." "Between 200 and 300 blown up photos." "You need a while to see them all." "This is Saint paul's façade." "If people want a copy out of it, there's no problem." "I have many landscapes." "Look, this is the entrance." "I took this picture in the 30's." "Were the Portuguese still here?" "No, they couldn't live here." "Just the Chinese." "Almost all of them have died." "I'm 90 years old." "Almost all of them died." "What's this wall for?" "They built it that way to hide what was behind." "But it's not high enough." "Yes, it's the height of a man, so you can't see." "7th DECEMBER FRIDAY" "ln this hotel, Ambos Mundos, lived in the 30's, there were many wars back then, the novelist Ernest Hemingway, National Culture Council." "Hemingway..." "They D¡ed w¡th The¡r Boots Qn..." "There are quite a few." "27 years of fighting." "And what for?" "Touch this." "Go on, touch my skull." "Feel that?" "They smashed my head open." "Before the Revolution." "I've got three children over there and two here." "Grown up now." "They say: "Write to them, and they'll send you money."" "But Bush doesn't want to send money here." "Before Bush was president, they sent me money." "30 dollars, 50 dollars, for dad." "I always bought them clothes and things." "I was a good father." "And now, wailing in silence." "Be strong." "Sure..." "Well, we're arriving." "Cuban Communist Party, PCC, that's what I am." "I've got two lD cards." "Just in case." "Young Communists, and then the party." "There was also a first communist in my family." "Proud of it." "He was very poor, lived in a tenement." "Poor Ñico..." "Atenement?" "He said: "Be careful with those people." "Lots of them will rob you."" "He lived in a tenement." "Every time I go by the hospital..." "I loved him." "I've got three medals." "Decorated." "How did you earn them?" "By being the best nurse in the country." "ln the emergency hospital." "Three medals." "Two others, and one for being the best nurse in the nation." "Do they know me?" "I don't know..." "They love me, they come here..." "I feed them..." "Maybe they talk about you." "Amongst themselves." ""Look who's here!" "Your father!" And they come out of the trees." "8th DECEMBER SATURDAY" "Fidel is sick." "And isn't there anyone who could replace him, like his brother?" "Yes, his brother could." "His brother is there." "That's for sure." "How do you see the future of Cuba?" "Good." "We won't be moved." "Raúl." "We want him in there." "But your situation is precarious." "And what can I do?" "My sons are all there." "Holding my son, my first son." "It's me." "Look, this is when I was a young nurse." "Look at the young girl." "I was older than her." "You taught her the profession." "Yes, she became a nurse." "I said to her: "You must study." "You need to be prepared." "You have to have a skill."" "lsn't nursing a skill?" "It's Medicine..." "And so you had a very close relationship?" "Did she become a good nurse?" "No." "I don't know where she is." "You lost track of her." "Do you know who you remind me of?" "Don Quixote of La Mancha." "That's good." "...OF NEW cinema" "9th DECEMBER SUNDAY" "It's a false internal regime." "We're blockaded by the United States, and we lack certain things, but we're free, zero violence..." "...free education and healthcare..." "Everything is for tourism." "They can build a whole restaurant in 15 days, but when it comes to repairing a building, no, no, people falling..." "No!" "That's the bad thing here." "No, let him film what he wants!" "The buildings are falling down, everything is falling down." "If it rains, they sleep there in boxes." "Don't they have anywhere to go?" "No shelter at all." "Yes, but..." "No!" "We have to tell the truth!" "I don't care!" "I'm not afraid!" "If I was afraid, I wouldn't speak." "José, what do you do?" "What can you tell me about the tenements?" "They're houses in the city." "They're hostels." "They're rooms, it's a big building with rooms." "A lot of rooms, rooms, rooms... lt's like a community with lots of people living in it." "And is that a solution to the housing problem?" "Here, in Old Havana, there's no solution." "When a building is about to collapse, they evict people" "...and send them to the provinces." "Yes, but..." "But there's a plan where they want..." "I don't remember how many, one hundred..." "There's a plan... yapping!" "Hugo Chávez." "Venezuela." "But Venezuela isn't..." "Chávez might not be in power any more." "So that's collapsed now." "Do you have this problem solved?" "No, they don't solve any problems here." "The only care about tourism." "Not housing." "Do you have a house?" "Almost collapsed." "Falling down." "Like that one there." "You know how many people live in there?" "More than 13 people." "Could I visit one of those houses, like yours?" "Falling down?" "Yes." "You want to see?" "Yes." "Come on." "Let's go." "Where?" "Look after that for me." "You look after that." "Okay, come with me." "We always go together." "Let's go." "Of course!" "I'm divorced, so this is where I live." "More than 300... 200 years old." "It's falling down." "There were parking spaces for cars downstairs." "They divided them and built these two communal bathrooms," "This is a tenement: a tiny place, split into 1 4,000 pieces." "Look at the fan he's got." "The fan..." "He made the blades with iron." "Look." "That's all it is." "The engine might come from a washing machine or an airplane..." "The only one who sleeps on a bed is disabled, he's had an ulcer for 26 years." "Under the bandage, it's bare bone." "I've had a bad leg for 28 years." "They won't treat him at the clinic." "They would cut off his foot." "He's an artist." "This was my first painting." "It's a landscape in the Eden, everything is perfect." "The beauty of the sun, and the birds look happy." "It's a perfect landscape." "Everything is good." "There's a hut..." "The rising sun." "There's a palm grove, with a tree." "lt has a freshness to it." "I always paint with love." "With love." "I've got a serious problem with my leg, I can't have love." "But he has love, there's a feeling inside him, which is called love." "As the preacher said:" ""Without love, you achieve nothing."" "We put a hosepipe here to fill up the water tanks." "When they switch off the generator, there's no more water." "There's no water until 5 or 6 p.m., when the generator comes back on." "Beethoven!" "Beethoven, let the gentleman in." "Sit down, sir." "This is my and my daughter's room." "Come in, don't be shy." "We've been in a "special period" for a few years now." "I support them." "You support the Americans." "Of course." "All countries, except this shitty country." "Beethoven..." "Beethoven, come here!" "She studies and works as a teacher of children's groups." "Do you like children?" "Will you have children?" "I hope she'll give me at least one grandchild." "I'm bored." "Do you write when you're depressed?" "When I'm bored." "When she gets nostalgic, she writes." "Stop, Beethoven." "I'm bored." "And do you have a house?" "Here in Havana?" "I'm staying in a hotel." "lnvited by the film festival." "Which hotel?" ""El NacionaI"." "Nacional de Cuba." "Ah, "El NacionaI", in the Vedado." "ln The Hotel Nacional..." "ls that a five star hotel." "lt's very nice." "And very expensive too." "I don't know." "The film festival pays for it." "The festival pay for it?" "Sure." "What do you do?" "I'm a film director." "Ah, you're a film director?" "What films have you made?" "Do you like cinema?" "I like the movies..." "What films do you like?" "All except horror films." "Not horror films?" "No." "Leonardo Di Caprio, he was in T¡tan¡c." "Do you like T¡tan¡c?" "But it's a very sad film." "And isn't life sad?" "Well..." "Boring?" "Boring." "Free, look, José, look, free." "Tell me!" "And here." "And here, I give classes in this tiny little room." "The late Vilma Espín supported homosexuals in Cuba." "Now, it's Vilma Espín's daughter." "Yes." "Do you know the late Vilma Espín?" "No." "Secretary of the Federation of Cuban Women." "Now it's her daughter." "Did you know that?" "No." "Her daughter defends us now." "Understand?" "So here we are..." "Yes, because he's... homosexual." "He can see that." "I'm loyal to Fidel and communism, and I'd die for my "comandante" Fidel Castro Ruz, he's given me education, my job, my profession." "And it hasn't cost me a penny, for healthcare or anything." "I'll tell you something, José, that they don't know." "I'm an HIV patient." "What?" "HIV positive for more than 6 years." "Non-diagnosed." "I don't have the virus, I look after myself." "But for what I have, "el comandante" gives me everything for free." "Medicine donated by the UN." "I don't complain because I live well here." "I have this." "I don't want a palace." "I have a brother in Spain, who helps me out." "The man you met who had an ulcer made all this for me." "The wall?" "This, this, the lights..." "William, the one with the bad leg." "When he still could, now he would faint." "Was he a builder?" "He's everything:" "painter, decorator, poet, builder, plumber." "Beethoven, come here!" "And if you don't drink, they sell rum at parties." "It's because of the drink..." "They don't sell ice creams, they sell rum." "You go to a disco, and they sell rum." "You go to a kids' activity, they're selling rum." "They only sell rum, so people won't think about food, because people are really hungry here." "Oh, my God..." "When you get drunk, you don't feel hungry because rum neutralises your stomach." "Instead of making soft drinks, they make rum." "AThousand brands of rum." "There's no money to call." "There's no communication." "She doesn't send me a penny." "This is another daughter of mine, who is here in Cuba, but her mother is in the United States." "She doesn't send me a penny." "This country cuts you off from your family." "I can't see her because I was in prison once." "But in this country everyone has been imprisoned." ""What does a man who's never loved know about love?" "He who's never cried knows nothing of love." "The feeling of love is joined like a brother to the feeling of pain, they always go hand in hand." "Pain and love are linked to jealousy and betrayal, and I'm proven right by all the sad lovers."" "William's poem has nothing to do with discos or imprisoned husbands;" "it has another meaning which you didn't get." "It talks about Cuba." "That problem..." "That poem has another meaning." "lt's the prison." "You fought." "lt's about Cuba." "You fought." "I'm talking about prison:" ""love" means "prison"." "Okay, evictions in Cuba." "See how many men..." "Evictions..." "Forget that." "You can't control your life." "What do you want me to do?" "Kill myself for nothing?" "I live with what I have." "I don't aspire to what I don't have." "I can't criticise Cuba, I'm free to go where I want." "ln other countries..." "Where can you go?" "I can walk anywhere in Havana, no one can stop me." "ln other countries, people can't do that." "They have cars because they can't walk like us." "The key things are free medicine and education." "That's enough for me, I don't want to leave." "ln another country, they wouldn't treat William; he has no money." "You were in the best hospital in Cuba." "Did you pay?" "I didn't pay, but..." "Of course, of course..." "That's what I'm saying... lf I take José and get in a bike taxi," "I'll pay for it, and take him to La Cubre." "He'll see homelessness in Cuba." "150 people living in cardboard boxes." "Waiting for the bus?" "He shouldn't drink so much." "Oh, sure!" "Come on!" ""Don't drink so much!"..." "Your life goes wrong because you're always drinking." "Thank you very much..." "Tell your husband..." "Tell your husband to keep you, you silly cow!" "Hey, shut up." ""Deception spares no one." "A terrifying love shows us how the deepest love diminishes." "ln liberty, concludes a beautiful paradise, and at a certain moment you're trapped in illusion, deception and obligation."" "It's always about prison, prison..." "You can't tell the difference between a poem and reality..." "Another poem?" "31st MARCH MONDAY" "6thAPRIL SUNDAY" "Qur fl¡ght crew and ground staff welcome you to the c¡ty of Cal¡." "9thAPRIL WEDNESDAY" "El Qu¡ubo!" "El Qu¡ubo!" "The Samarian said:" ""How can a Jewish like you ask a Samarian woman to give him something to drink?" "Jewish and Samarians don't talk to each other."" "I saw you from the car and I asked them to stop." "Just to film me?" "I wanted to get a portrait, a short recording." "A small film." "12th april SATURDAY" "He's been invited by the University of Cali, for a diploma in cinema." "For a documentary or for a film?" "I don't know if they're the same thing." "If they mean the same thing, or if they are different things." "So, which role would I get?" "You'd be Sonia, and your neighbours would be your neighbours." "Aha..." "But not here, because we're leaving soon." "I'd follow you wherever you took me." "Oh, okay." "What is it?" "Coming." "I'd like you to see her." "She's 110 years old." "We've got cats, hens, chicks..." "Mother, they're here to say hello." "Take that bench." "She's a bit deaf now, at 110." "We live here in the country." "Listen, mama, do you remember what you've learnt in all these years that God has given you?" "What?" "Do you remember all you've learned in all the years you've lived with God's help?" "What can I learn?" "Nothing." "Don't you remember anything you've learnt?" "I make it 110 years old, she says it's 100." "I don't know..." "What's the most beautiful thing in life?" "You should say health." "Health and the sunshine." "13th april SUNDAY" "I'm going to keep working, or I won't wash this today." "The nicest thing is the sunshine." "I was displaced by the paramilitaries." "As there's a river, guerrillas are on one side and paramilitaries on the other." "I was pushed off my land." "They threw me out of my home." "I want to work in construction abroad, because they pay better." "It's worthless here." "Can you help her to go to Spain?" "I'd like her to work in Spain." "And then send me the air fare so that I can go." "I'd love her to go and work there." "Because Herod was living with his brother's wife." "Then it was Herod's daughter birthday and she began to dance." "She danced so well that her father granted her a wish." "And her mother told her to ask for John the Baptist's head." "So the head of John the Baptist was brought to Herod on a tray." "They say he died for telling the truth." "Yes, like Jesus, who died for telling the truth." "For telling the truth..." "Well..." "I didn't die, but there were times when I was afraid." "I had to escape from the war." "The most beautiful thing is the sunshine, that's true." "Don't let the night fall, don't let them do evil." "When the night comes, that's the time for evil." "When night comes, I get sad." "They killed my husband at night, so I don't want the night to come." "There have always been wars, like in Jerusalem, in those big countries, where they kill I don't know how many people." "The father of my child, everyone thought he was dead, but we didn't." "To us, he was always with us." "Right to this day." "He's with us wherever we go." "I'm looking for a way out, if I get the chance." "But she's marrying Humberto before she goes." "No." "Because she has to." "Sonia, get married." "No, no more men in my life." "No?" "I'd like to get married." "Humberto, the neighbour, really loves her." "It would be selfish to say:" "I'll get married, but, if I get the chance to leave, I'll go." "I want to marry, but God hasn't given me a husband." "Relax, you'll find him." "Have faith." "Put your faith in God." "The father of my children asked me to marry him." "If I'd married him, it would be the same." "A wasted marriage." "The father of my children didn't support me at all because he's very lazy." "They do everything for fun." "A short moment together and that's it." "Us women build our hopes up, but the men don't." "They just go with you for a while and then forget you, bye-bye." "Most of us are mothers and heads of households." "I brought up four children." "On my own." "I brought up seven." "Nine, wasn't it?" "Nine." "I had to raise two more..." "Raising so many children..." "Four is a lot of work..." "What do men do?" "They play dominoes, they play cards..." "They hang around, drinking with their friends." "Hanging around..." "My kids are used to being without me." "Yes, I do miss my kids a lot, but I tell myself that" "I'll be with them when I can offer them a better quality of life." "My husband..." "I think you can find new loves every day." "So..." "You keep filming, but you haven't really explained to me if a film and a documentary are the same." "What was that?" "What happened?" "Ancient people used to say the next Great Flood would be a fire flood." "Who knows... 8thAUGUST WEDNESDAY" "building PERU" "Petrol has gone up, but come on." "I can't take you for 70, don't push it." "The other guy will." "Even if it's only one sol or two soles." "Another bike will come and take them." "You have to accept it, because you fill up 50 by 50, you get 10 soles to get some food, otherwise..." "That's how it is." "Folders for papers and receipts." "Folders!" "Cheap books, two soles." "Take education and culture home." "Sewing, cooking, anatomy, physics, biology..." "For 2 soles!" "For the hernia, for everything, buy a girdle." "The best matches!" "100 matches for 1 sol!" "Shopping bags, medium and small." "Battery-powered lighters for the kitchen." "Ornamental combs." "Hi." "What's up?" "Lighters for 2 soles!" "Relax¡ng massages." "For headaches, for backaches..." "Chocolate cake." "Alarms against burglars!" "For the door." "To stop burglaries." "Make your house safe at night." "For doors and windows." "Just take pictures!" "Don't worry!" "Here, here!" "There, look!" "GOLD" "Free sits!" "Free sits!" "Chocolate, cookies..." "Cookies, chocolate..." "¿Do you want some, little fella?" "Free sits!" "Free sits!" "Nobody wants any." "Chocolate to sweeten your mouth?" "Peru Avenue, Santa Rosa..." "Peru Ave, Santa Rosa... lt's on film." "Will you buy one?" "Why d¡d John the Bapt¡st call them a brood of v¡pers and evil doers?" "Because he was brave, because he told God's people." ""Devils." "Brood of v¡pers. "" "And why was John the Bapt¡st decap¡tated?" "Because he dared to reveal the hypocr¡sy of the k¡ng, who was I¡ving w¡th h¡s s¡ster-in-law." "L¡ke you, s¡r, you, madam, you I¡ve w¡th your s¡ster, w¡th your brother." "You I¡ve w¡th your mother-¡n-law, father-¡n-law." "Shut up, son of the Devil!" "50 for a chocolate." "Chocolate bars!" "He's my father-in-law." "He's filming, but nobody is buying." "Only 50." "Go in." "Gum." "He invites you." "When I was younger I worked in houses." "My masters wanted to take me with them, but I didn't go, I didn't want to hurt my mother." "I regret it now. lf I had gone, things might have been different." "That was my chance." "They left and wanted to take me as a nanny for their little girl." "They were Canadian." "Coming." "I'll just rinse the clothes." "Rosita." "The sierra is beautiful." "My father-in-law is from Ayacucho too, but terrorism drove him here." "My mother also used to make cachangas." "On the sierra, they harvest wheat and make cachangas." "We had cows in our little farm, we sowed potatoes..." "Everything we needed to eat." "Did you like life in the country?" "He's traumatized, he's not the same any more." "ln my home region, there's no one left." "I try not to remind him of it, because when he remembers, he gets like this." "They killed my entire family." "There's no one left." "Who killed them?" "The terrorists killed all his family." "The Shining Path." "They were going to kill them..." "They took a lot of people like that." "(unintelligible;" "HE SPEAKS ABOUT PLUNDERS AND MURDERS)" "My parents had some money and they stole it." "But they don't just steal, they burn their houses too." "There was nothing left." "Who can help them?" "No one." "The bravest have died." "I had one too." "A dog." "When my mum came back from school, my grandma had died." "Afew days later, he disappeared." "My dog." "He left and never came back." "Who?" "Carpincho, he was called Carpincho." "Carpincho went to the cemetery." "I don't know where he went." "To the cemetery." "My dog left." "My grandmother was sick." "They took her to hospital, but she was very ill and she died." "Who?" "Mum's mum?" "Yes, she died." "And now she's buried in the cemetery." "At Sauce." "Sometimes she made cachanga too, and it was just like my mother's." "And punch." "She cooked egg punch for me." "Did she?" "Yes, with chocolate." "With cocoa, egg punch." "Egg white, then the yolk, and then the cocoa with the sugar." "And she gave it to me." "And I liked it." "And to my cousins, Gloria, Daisy, Alison..." "She also gave some to them." "And she died." "This tortoise was a gift from my aunt, from the jungle." "It prefers papaya and banana." "When there's no firewood, my mother uses cow dung." "It's true, but I collect the firewood in the street, things people throw away." "On the sierra, this is real, but it's fantasy in here." "Hand me the dish." "That rooster doesn't let me sleep." "I should cut its neck, make a soup with it." "How's the cachanga?" "ls it good?" "You travel, you're so lucky." "Jerusalem, Jerusalem... lt's colder in Jerusalem, isn't it?" "Hot." "lt's hot there." "He says:" ""Will you take me to Jerusalem?"" "Jerusalem, the country of the Bible." "When you go with God, all is okay." "We're like brothers with Spain." "But not with Chile, we can't stand them." "Chileans want..." "We've got riches in the sea and they want them." "Peru is rich, it has gold, and the sea, which has fish." "On TV you see other countries where people are starving, they can't stand on their feet, they're all skinny." "There is poverty here, but not like in Africa." "Here we can eat a plate of food, a bowl of soup..." "Poor black people..." "lt's really sad, children..." "Black children." "They have no food." "We throw scraps away;" "they don't throw away a thing." "Over there." "The words of the writer Max¡m Gorky, when he attended a projection by the Lum¡ère brothers." "Gorky sa¡d." ""Last n¡ght, I was ¡n the k¡ngdom of shadows." "11th JULY FRIDAY lf you knew how strange ¡t felt there, no colour, no sound... lt ¡s not I¡fe, but ¡ts shadow." "It ¡s not movement, but ¡ts s¡lent spectre."" "15th JULY TUESDAY" "portraits" "locations" "THE bible locations" "They're young." "The oldest is seven years old." "If they don't study later, they'll rejoin the flock." "Look, there goes one." "They use their weapons like this." "This is the blackboard for writing on." "The chairs for the pupils." "The teacher hits pupils who get things wrong, with board rubber, like this." "That's where the kids come out." "When is this going to appear on TV?" "When?" "When will we be on TV?" "When?" "Yes, what time?" "What time?" "The time." "What time?" "What time?" "Us in the cinema..." "What time?" "At two o'clock?" "Yes." "At two o'clock?" "Yes." "Morning or afternoon?" "Two o'clock in the morning or the afternoon?" "Cinema, cinema." "Us in the cinema?" "This is the desk." "This is a car." "Us, in the cinema at two in the morning." "27thAUGUST WEDNESDAY" "The filmmaker Chantal Akerman." "I want to say there's no difference between documentary and fiction." "There's no difference." "A good fictional film always contains documentary, and a good documentary always has fiction in it as well." "So, as a jury, we've decided not to make that distinction." "STOP THE experimental ELECTROMECHANlCAL MODULE" "SAVE THE LAGOON AND venice FROM SEAAND MAN" "Stop saying:" ""Hello, I'm Jewish, blah blah..."" "I didn't say that." "She didn't say that." "I spoke to her about 4 or 5 days ago, she said her mother invented that song, and that's why we're singing it." "We could have a Jewish revolution here." "What does the Jewish revolution consist of?" "Thank you!" "The Middle East is at war, and it's just the beginning." "Once the Iranians have the bomb, they'll get us all." "Only the Israelis will be able to save us." "7th SEPTEMBER SUNDAY" "That's why I saidthat lmages are idolized now, and the 2nd Commandment says:" ""You shall not make images in the form of anything in Heaven on earth or on sea, and you shall not bow down to them."" "That's the important part:" ""You shall not bow down to them."" "And that's all there is now."