1957 Chevy Apparition 2017

Ross Little and Florrie James have collaborated on a series of three short films each presenting a variety of experiences, real and imagined, reflecting on time spent in Havana, Cuba. They use a mixture of documentary and fiction to explore the vastly differing and contradictory ways Cuban history and politics is represented. Each film brings its own language of remembered conversation, feelings, political viewpoints and daydreams. The three films experiment with home-made lenses and filters - including silk, smoke and dense foliage. They find a way to talk about their experiences through fictional texts within the films. Neon Pink represents a slipping of consciousness of its central narrator, who travels through memories and time, grasping at a whole vision but never managing to break through the layers of truth and invention. The content relates to tourism in Havana and how the city has sold its vital energy to this force. The second film, Transgenic Technology and Recombinant DNA Technique is a fictional report on the state of agriculture on the island in a time of considerable economic and social change. The third film, Caña, is an allegorical story of a woman's wandering through a sugar cane plantation, coming across three apparitions who embody the distant voices of post colonial writer Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Bolivian feminist activist group Mujeres Creando (Women Creating), and feminist theorist Luce Irrigaray.