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One Way or Another (De Cierta Manera)
Dublin Core
Title
One Way or Another (De Cierta Manera)
Subject
feminist, Latin/x, Cuban, revolutionary, Third Cinema, fake documentary, woman director, Social Realism
Description
I love to teach this film in feminist documentary because of its groudbreaking integration of documetary and fiction as well as for Gomez's important role as a woman and feminist and radical filmmaker within Third and Cuban cinema.
Source
Publisher
Tricontinental Film Center
Date
1974
Contributor
Stars Yolanda Cuéllar, Mario Balmaseda, Mario Limonta
Relation
“Sara Gómez’s Revolutionary Cuba” film collection on the Criterion Channel. (Requires subscription.)
Format
VHS
Language
Spanish dialogue, with English documentary voice over and subtitles.
Coverage
The only feature from the radical Afro-Cuban filmmaker Sara Gómez—who also worked as an assistant director with Agnès Varda and Tomás Gutiérrez Alea before her untimely death at age thirty-one—is an extraordinary portrait of post-revolution Cuba. Blending invaluable documentary footage with a loose narrative about the budding relationship between an outspoken schoolteacher (Yolanda Cuellar) and a young worker (Mario Balmaseda) facing a moral crisis, One Way or Another depicts revolution as an ongoing process that takes place at the level of community—among friends, lovers, coworkers, teachers, students, and parents, all of whom must work together to negotiate a new social order. Above all, Gómez offers a trenchant intersectional critique of the lingering sexism and machismo that, she argues, must be cleared away in order to create a truly just society. -Janus Films
Alternative Title
De Cierta Manera
Abstract
"In Miraflores, Cuba, the growing romance between Mario, a factory worker, and Yolanda, a schoolteacher, throws into relief the differences in their perspectives and values in Revolutionary Cuba." (IMDB)
Date Issued
1977 (filmed in 1974 but not released till 1977, following Gómez’s death)
Has Version
Original spanish language audio/text version
Extent
74 minutes
Is Referenced By
Reframing Revolution: The Cinema of Sara Gómez, edited by Susan Lord and María Daridad Cumaná
The Brief and Brilliant Career of Sara Gómez, by Richard Brody published January 31st 2025 in the New Yorker
The Brief and Brilliant Career of Sara Gómez, by Richard Brody published January 31st 2025 in the New Yorker
Moving Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
35 mm
Duration
74 minutes
Producer
Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos
Director
Sara Gómez
URL
https://brooklyn-cuny.yuja.com/V/Video?v=11712673&node=51518987&a=186594729
Player
Files
Citation
“One Way or Another (De Cierta Manera),” VHS Activism Archive , accessed June 19, 2025, https://activismvhs.omeka.net/items/show/670.
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