Epicentro Official Trailer

Now on Digital, Bluray, and DVD: The latest film from Academy Awardnominated director Hubert Sauper (Darwins Nightmare) offers a typically complex and frankly bracing consideration of the past, present, future, and mythology of Cuba. Sauper dials back to the sinking of the USS Maine in 1898 to pinpoint the origins of destructive geopolitics that also overlap with the origins of cinema, and thus with the origins of cinematic misinformation, as an entry into presenting his own new (and mindfully fraught) images of the people of Havana. Epicentro challenges viewers to get beyond received notions of a society ambered and isolated in timenotions that locals are more than familiar withby following wise young people who are angling for a future. Sauper never floats a question without casting it upon himself, and never makes a picture without inviting us to scrutinize how and why it was made, making his cinemaand Epicentro especiallyan invaluable, morally vital arena for reflections on