[Home movie: Mario Perez Video Collection, 2009, Last day in Cuba at La Lisa]

About this film

Synopsis A home movie from 2009 by Mario Perez on the last day of his trip to Cuba. It documents his family gathered at the house on La Lisa talking. It also includes footage of him, his brother Esteban and his cousin Martica at La Lisa and at his father's house. Mario records Martica modeling as a funny character. Lastly, it shows footage of a man, a friend of Martica. Collection description This film (Perez_0048) 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 Clos…

Directors & creators

Mario Perez

Subjects

families; family life; LGBTQ+ people; streets, Centro Habana (Havana, Cuba), Cuban families; Al Larvick Fund; home movies; 2000s; Havana (Cuba); MiniDV, La Lisa (Havana, Cuba)

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