Trailer MENDIVE

Direction and production: Juanamaría Cordones-Cook.
El mundo mágico de Mendive / The Magical World of Mendive, ca. 40 minutes with English subtitles. Comment: Film offers a unique perspective into the personal and artistic world of Manuel Mendive, the leading contemporary Cuban artist. Creating in various genres, drawing, painting, body painting, soft and hard sculpture, installations, and performances, Mendive is also a Santería priest, whose spirituality permeates all of his creations. This documentary shows a broad spectrum of his work including his latest performance in Havana, Las Cabezas (May 2012). Mendive appears painting in his studio as well as in the midst of his tropical forest offering some unprecedented remarks on his early life, on African elements in his art while he discusses his aesthetics and his profound fascination with the creative process. This film is enriched with comments by major Cuban intellectuals, Nancy Morejón, Pablo Armando Fernández, Yolanda Wood, and Adelaida de Juan, as well as with music by Ulises Hernández and Argeliers León.

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