La moderna poesia (2000)

A very personal travelogue of Cuba. The anarchy and vitality of everyday survival is one level of the film, another is the portraits of Che Guevara dominating the country. We see his huge face on walls and billboards which proclaim: "Your example lives", "Your ideas survive". We also see his icon everywhere at the souvenir markets, on T-shirts, ashtrays and mugs. The contradiction between those high demands and reality, between pathos and kitsch, mirrors my own divided situation as a tourist in asocialist country. I wonder: " What has become of Che? And then I ask myself: What has become of us?"