79 Primaveras
Santiago Alvarez, 1969, CU, 35mm, 24'
A tribute to Ho Chi Minh, the revered leader of the Viet Min independence movement who had defeated French Indochina and founded the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. The justly celebrated 12 minute sequence in which newsreel footage of soldiers is destroyed exemplifies Alvarez's declaration that “my style is the style of hatred for Imperialism.”



