Selected Film
In Cuba, when night falls, the city changes rhythm. Like the cocuyos, the small luminous insects that appear in the tropical darkness, certain energies of urban life also emerge only after sunset. They are discreet presences, often invisible in the island’s official narratives, yet capable of generating a quiet and persistent vitality. Cuba Coocuyo Remix was born from the desire to observe this reality up close, without narrative constructions and without spectacular mediation. The film moves within a community connected to electronic music and follows the flow of its everyday life: encounters, waiting, movement through the city, suspended conversations, and moments of unexpected irony. The approach is openly neorealist. The camera remains close to bodies, places, and the real duration of situations, allowing events to unfold naturally. There is no intention to guide or explain what happens; the film prefers to inhabit the time of things, where even the smallest gestures can reveal an entire human universe. In this way, the Cuban electronic scene is not treated as a musical phenomenon to be described, but as a living environment. A human context made up of relationships, presences, contradictions, and moments of suspension, in which everyday life becomes the true narrative substance. Through this patient observation, the film builds a collective portrait that takes shape through the accumulation of fragments and situations. Night becomes the space in which these presences meet and continue to exist, illuminating only what is necessary, just like the cocuyos in the dark. Cuba Coocuyo Remix does not simply tell the story of Cuban electronic music. It tells the story of the people who make it possible.
Duration: 00:15:00
Country of Origin: Cuba
Language: Spanish
Director(s): Desiderio Sanzi
Writer(s): Desiderio Sanzi
Producer(s): ElectroWish
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