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The Strawberry Tree = El árbol de las fresas = L'arbre à fraises

Item number (ISN):

439416

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

2011

Item number (ISN):

439416

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

IBIDEM FILMS

Accession:

2012-0021

Media:

Video

Original title:

El árbol de las fresas

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

2011

Production company:

Ibidem Films

Production credit:

director/scenario/photography/editing/sound, Simone Rapisarda Casanova

Description:

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Testing the boundaries between anthropology, documentary and reverie, EL ÁRBOL DE LAS FRESAS is a cinematic poem that portrays with restraint the final sigh of one of Cuba's last fishing villages.Besides the introductory sequence, the film was entirely shot in the remote hamlet of Juan Antonio, only weeks before it disappeared at the hands of a hurricane. Located where Columbus first set anchor in his 1492 discovery of the New World, the village hosted a singular fishing community, where traits and habits of the Taìno indigenous population had survived and mixed with those of the Spanish colonizers.The film primarily focuses on the daily routines of two families, Silva Ocampo and Silva Vidal, while they prepare for Children's Day and the next day's fishing expedition. Their ingeniousness and resilience, as well as their playful and irreverent attitude toward the filmmaker, provide a continuous source of reflection and amusement. The filmmaker's initial prominence slowly fades through the course of the film, leaving space to the tension between the village and its ultimate fate. Through a candid observation of the villagers and of the peculiar relationship that develops between them and the filmmaker, EL ÁRBOL DE LAS FRESAS renders a sensitive portrait of a unique culture into a meditation on documentary filmmaking and on humanity on the edge of time. <71mn>

Language:

Spanish / English subtitles

Notes:

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1. Purchased through the Canadian Feature Film preservation Fund.~2. Produced with the support of the Centro de Antropología de la Habana; and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.~3. Festivals: International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Netherlands, Nov. 2011; festival Del Film Locarno, Switzerland, Aug. 2011; Miami International Film Festival - Knight Documentary Competition (Honorable Mention), Mar. 2011.~4. Synopsis taken from the movie's press kit.~5. The DVD contains English, French and Italien subtitles.

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Vault ISN:

602462

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

13571AV

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Duration:

71:00

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

602507

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

13713AV

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Duration:

71:00

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

REF
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Conditions of access:

Open

Restrictions on consultation:

No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Copyright status:

Under copyright.

Copyright owner:

Copyright owner: Ibidem Films, 2011.

Reproduction access:

With written permissions / Avec les permissions écrites

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Date modified:: 2024-04-09