[Home movie: Mario Perez Video Collection, March, 2001, Memories of Cuba #1]

About this film

Synopsis A home movie by Mario Perez of his trip to Cuba in 2001 with his husband David. It shows footage of his family in their house on an ordinary evening. This video was recorded with the intention of showing it to Ada, Mario's aunt that no longer lived in Cuba, so the family continuously sends their regards and their invitations for her to visit. It also has footage of Mario visiting other family members, exploring the municipality of Marianao and narrating his experiences in the town. It ends with him at a church's altar. Collection description This film (Perez_0008) is part of the Mario Perez Video Collection . The Mario Perez Video Collection consists of 20 8mm videotapes and 28 mini-DV tapes. The tapes capture Mario and his friends in the gay community from about 1996 to about 2009. They are very personal and show Mario and his friends hanging out on Christopher Street, on the piers, at the Chelsea Gym and in the gay bar called Sneakers, which was on West Street at the corner of Christopher Street. The collection includes video on the following subject matter: Christopher Street and environs – gay bars, bookstores, and street life in the late 1990s including footage of bar…

Directors & creators

Mario Perez

Subjects

Al Larvick Fund; home movies; 2000s; Video8; Media Burn Archive; dogs; families; family life; streets; photographs; children; churches; altars; religious articles; buildings; antique cars; La Lisa (Havana, Marianao (Havana, Cuba), Centro Habana (Havana, Cuba), Havana (Cuba); Cuban families

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