[Home movie: Mario Perez Video Collection, 2008, Chely's house, Havana and New Year's Day]

About this film

Synopsis A home movie from 2008 by Mario Perez about his trip to Cuba. It includes footage of his cousin Martica and her partner Chely hanging out at the house singing songs. Then, he explores Centro Habana with a guy named Amaury. Finally, he documents his family's New Year's Eve celebration at the house on La Lisa. Collection description This film (Perez_0045) 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 bars with an ethnically and gender diverse clientele that no longer exist. These provide a view of gay life that has disappeared from Greenwich Village. 2. The Closing of the Chelsea Gym – the Chelsea Gym was an import…

Directors & creators

Mario Perez

Subjects

singing; Capitolio (Havana, Gran Teatro de La Habana (Havana, Cuba), Catedral de la Habana (Havana, Cuba), Teatro Payret (Havana, Cuba), New Year's Eve; families; family life; sparklers; La Lisa (Havana, Centro Habana (Havana, Cuba), Marianao (Havana, Cuba), Cuban families; Al Larvick Fund; home movies; 2000’s; MiniDV; Media Burn Archive; Havana (Cuba), La Lisa (Havana, Cuba)

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