CAMAGÜEY.- The Camagüey International Video Art Festival (FIVAC), forced by the pandemic to change the date and the programming scheme, will develop its ninth edition on November 8, 9 and 10 at El Circuito.
“We are going to present a total of 93 works, by 102 artists who are representing 26 countries. Among those countries, Romania, Sweden, the United States, Italy, El Salvador and Cuba ”, stated the curator Teresa Bustillo.
In relation to previous editions, there was a record of presentation of works, "this speaks of pleasure, of the inherent need of the human being to create, regardless of the unfavorable circumstances that the world has had in the last two years", she added.
Although they dispensed with the space for theoretical confrontation, the coordinator of the La Próxima Resistencia project explained that the usual segment of samples from analogous festivals will be promoted at another time.
FIVAC will only occupy The Circuit as its headquarters, starting at 6:00 p.m. on the 8th, while on the 9th it will open at 10:00 a.m. in its Pixel gallery, and it will also offer screenings in its spacious room called Georges Méliès.
“We like to do FIVAC as a party, because that is what a festival is, it is a time to celebrate the work of artists, but thinking of doing a festival as if nothing had happened seemed a bit cynical to us. Now I see FIVAC as a gift for people, an invitation to leave home to enjoy something new, interesting, ”insisted general producer Diana Rosa Pérez Legón.
The initial date of the Camagüey's meeting presided over by multimedia artist Jorge Luis Santana was in April, but the complex epidemiological situation in Camagüey made the organizing committee postpone it until November; however, COVID-19 has not disappeared as desired.
“Due to its self-financed nature, FIVAC had a registration fee. This year nothing will be charged. Free entrance. We want it to be a place of calm after the pandemic ”, emphasized Pérez Legón and then invited to follow the page www.fivacuba.com and the social networks where they will tell about the edition.
Recently, on Friday, October 29, the cultural project El Circuito reopened its doors, only with the option of 3D cinema, and with strict compliance with sanitary protocols such as the mandatory use of the nasobuco, physical distancing and washing hands with solutions. chlorinated.
“We haven't worked since January. The Circuit was able to stay on its feet thanks to the Festival account. The Circuit is the Festival's self-management model, in fact, the funds we had in the Festival account were generated by ourselves from The Circuit ”, concluded the general producer.
Translated by Linet Acuña Quilez