The film screening “Memories of Underdevelopment” will be presented at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 26 at at the UCSB Multicultural Center, in the MCC Theater, Santa Barbara.
Sergio, a wealthy bourgeois aspiring writer, decides to stay in Cuba even though his wife and friends flee to Miami, the university reported in a media release. Sergio looks back over the changes in Cuba from the Castro revolution to the Cuban missile crisis, the effect of living in an underdeveloped country, and his relations with his girlfriends Elena and Hanna.
Discussion with professor Colin Gardner of the Department of Art following the screening. Co-sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, 97 min., Spanish with English subtitles, 1968, Cuba.
This film will also be discussed at the panel, “The Fight to Stay Put: Social Lessons through Media Imaginings of Urban Transformation and Change,” at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 1, 4 in 6020 HSSB.
For more information, call 805.893.7609 or visit http://mcc.sa.ucsb.edu/