Screening + Q&A: EPICENTRO

As part of its spring 2021 residency, the MFA in Film program will present a public screening of faculty member Hubert Sauper’s EPICENTRO on Tuesday, April 20, at 10:30 am ET. From world-renowned filmmaker Hubert Sauper—director of Sundance winner WE COME AS FRIENDS  and the Oscar-nominated DARWIN’S NIGHTMARE—comes EPICENTRO, an immersive and metaphorical  portrait of post-colonial, “utopian” Cuba, where the 1898 explosion of the USS Maine still resonates. This Big Bang ended Spanish colonial dominance in the Americas and ushered in the era of the American Empire. At the same time and place, a powerful tool of conquest was born: cinema as propaganda. In EPICENTRO, Sauper explores a century of interventionism and myth-making together with the extraordinary people of Havana—particularly its children, who he calls “young prophets”—to interrogate  time, imperialism, and cinema itself.

The screening will be followed by a public Q&A with Director and VCFA Faculty Hubert Sauper.