FILM

Landrián’s films are often willingly poetic and offer more of an anthropological critique, than of an educative or post-revolutionary investigation, common at the time. In the year of agriculture, Landrián made a film about dancing – Los del Baile. The film starts with the musician Pello el Afrokán, who developed a music style which he labeled Mozambique. To make a film about dance could be understood as queering the trajectories of revolutionary government, but this alone would be too condensed. In the same year Fidel Castro asked Pello to compose a new Mozambique, aiming for a marriage of music and work, rendering productive what is usually seen as anti-productive. (Elke Marhöfer)