SANTIAGO EN BRUGES
Music by: uncredited woman in a blue dress, Asere, Miguel Del Morales, Zaida Reyte, Anibal Avila, Armando Machado, Alejandro Almenares
Betrayal kills reason, reason kills passion, passion breaks your heart. Just her now, at the window, looking out on the water, pizzicato rojo, armónica aguja, lagrimas negras
all footage is found footage
SE ME FUE LA MONTUNA
Part 1, Music by Septeto Nacional: 2am 11th January 1959, Ed Sullivan appears on the Fidel Castro Show, Carlos Embale sings La Montuna Left Me, El Gallo visits his priestess...diving gannets? Good question.
Part 2, Music by Club Musical Oriente Cubano: El Gallo dreams about La Montuna, she's in Santiago not Havana afterall, she sings to him, he is rudely woken
LA BROCHA
Music by Conjunto Estrellas De Chocolate
Memory, mud, death, rebirth, dance, love and, I suppose, painting, or as Hockney pronounces it, with Californian affectation: paining. Rauschenberg is paraphrasing De Kooning when he says 'now I'm going to give you one that's really hard to erase' and is refering to the De Kooning drawings Rauschenberg is transforming with an eraser......Hold on to the paintbrush, cos I'm taking the ladder
BLUE RIVER
Music by Smokestack
The top (possibly only) three good things about living in Brighton are, in reverse order, the sea, the South Downs and Smokestack live. Smokestack really don't need anybody imposing stolen footage onto their sweet music. Nevertheless that's what I've done and I'm very sorry.
LACAN NO CANTA
Music by Tata Güines, Carlos Embale, Celeste Mendoza.
Words by Jacques Marie Émile Lacan
Lacan can't, Mendoza can
footage from Grandes Pensadores Del Siglo XX, dir: Francoise Wolff, Canal Encuentro, Argentina 1971 and Nosostros La Musica dir: Rogelio, Paris 1964
PAIGNTON TO SAN LAZARO
Music by Tata Guines, Felipe Labrada
That thing, when you're on a train journey, its tiring, you're listening to an mp3 player, you're drifting somewhere near sleep and the space beyond the carriage window has been overlaid with memories of another journey; one you would like to be making again, in the sunshine, going somewhere you want to be, somewhere unreal..
Thanks to http://www.youtube.com/user/vishnuonf... and http://www.youtube.com/user/josef1045 for the Kerala footage and to various steam fanatics in Cuba
ARSENIO
2 tunes: 'Mi Chinita Me Boto' and 'Esas No'. And a montage of footage including all I could find of Arsenio Rodriguez (about 11 seconds) in 5 years of searching . Palms dancing in a hurricane and burning in a grove (hay fuego en el 23?), unas palabras del Ciego Maravilloso, Felix Chappottin, the hands of Lili Martinez
TRES DE BARROSO
Three tunes by Abelardo Barroso
La Hija De Juan Simon
En Guantanamo
Bruca Manigua
Footage from Soy Cuba (1964) by Mikhail Kalatozov: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Cuba