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In 1968, Cuban cinema

was out in the worid.

It was discovered in many places.

There is a prestige,

a history and a tradition...

that I think we owe it

basically to documentaries.

IF:

THE BLACKS:

H0W? THE BLACKS? The disintegration

of American imperialism.

The vanguard rebellion,

the total revolution.

The political revolution,

the human revolution.

The Third Word revolution.

We all, in a certain way,

came from Italian neorealism...

thanks to the strength that,

in the 40's and 50's...

neorealism had in cinema

woridwide, specially...

in Latin America.

I think that, in that time...

we were looking...

our own authenticity,

our own way...

to express our feelings...

our thoughts and our reality.

Glauber filmed

"Black God, White Devil" in 1964.

That meant he was ahead of us...

in regard to...

to Italian neorealism.

And I can remember...

Glauber as one of the first

to exteriorize...

his disavowal and make

a moral contribution.

To meet Glauber was like...

to see the light

at the end of the tunnel.

He was a pioneer.

He was a storm, a cyclone.

He theorized, because it was not

just his films...

it was also his sense of aesthetics.

The "aesthetics of hunger" moved...

many filmmakers

and really contributed...

so that we saw cinema

in a more objective way...

in face of the

Latin American needs.

And Glauber was the one

who did that, in my opinion.

He was very important.

It was a wave of feelings...

and affirmation...

of the authenticity, of the

authenticity of each country...

of the authenticity

of each country's culture.

Each was looking

for its own image.

We didn't want to see

a mirror that reflected...

our most external side...

we wanted to see ourselves

in a poetic mirror...

one that reflected the deepest

side of ourselves.

That was our thesis,

mine and Glauber's.

The vanguard intellectuals

of today...

they don't want to be called...

intellectuals.

Not that they feel guilt...

for being intellectuals

or for not deserving it...

not because they think

their function is useless...

to engage in philosophical

and artistic speculations...

or in scientific research.

No, on the contrary.

It's, above all,

because they value more...

this capacity that man has

to produce for the collectivity...

which is what intellectuals

don't want to be anymore...

an elite character.

And "elite" in quotes...

because he was always

submissive...

economically or morally

to the interests of aristocracy...

or of bourgeoisie.

So the intellectual...

is no longer that and...

became a man integrated

to society...

like a working man

or any other man.

And when he gives up

this position...

and identify socially

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