SUITE HABANA Original Cuban Silkscreen Movie Poster CUBA ART DECO / Cool Shoes!!

This is an original Cuban silkscreen movie poster for the 2003 documentary film "Suite Habana," directed by Fernando Pérez. The design highlights thematic elements of the film, which depicts a day in the life of real people in Havana without dialogue.

Poster has an original stamp on the back. 

This lovely art deco-style poster was designed by Cuban graphic artist Eduardo Moltó. We believe that 100 or fewer copies of the poster were made in the Cuban Film Institute's silk-screen workshop in Havana. 

A copy of this poster was displayed in the program for “Artes de Cuba: From the Island to the World,” the 2018 cultural festival at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C. The movie SUITE HABANA was also shown at this prestigious festival.

Director Fernando Pérez’s cinematic homage to the city of Havana and its inhabitants, Suite Habana (2003), resists the reading of Cuba as a place that is stuck in time. In the course of one day and one night, the documentary shows figures in constant if also conflictive motion. Pistons pump in factory machines that coincide with the walk of an old maninera in Habana vieja, selling peanuts to get by. Legs turn the pedals of a bicycle, hands advance food items down an assembly line, arms tighten the giant bolts of the tracks of the railroad – this film is a collection of metonyms, of members, parts of a fragmented dream, for some still vivid, but for others, the nation-state has lost all credit. A film filled with sounds and cuts of spoken words, Suite Habana relays no audible dialogue. What does a film of no audible dialogue visually suggest? The mechanics of life at its most basic overdetermine all talk, or, at least, the filmic desire to relay that talk to the viewer. But one wonders, is this because the language of the documentary’s subjects does not matter? Or instead, does this emphasis on the rituals of survival, rather than on audible voice, drive the following point: that the state and the staid narrative of the Revolution find themselves on one side of an interstice, and the nation on the other. Not a silence, but an intense incongruity of needs, concessions, foregone demands, and delimited hopes are activated and actively ignored between them.

Dimension of the poster : 20x30 inches