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writer/ filmmakerUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger183125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7843841527405179020.post-68174996292036597302021-02-18T12:14:00.002-05:002021-02-18T12:14:57.605-05:002000: Photos from Matanzas, Cuba<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR5Y2D2kLBHXXIEeGlgTvfjHO_3hYVjoSsWQ-aKM-LfvgCgSkgyLfT4e6p2pUY9p33m2nFPD234AwDl9uRoH_qJ63GAVmUcxgD9DS58iLUvbXOeQ5GuqOlWSig3ktCE5m-EsNgis9cYpsC/s945/Matanzas03831.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="945" data-original-width="530" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR5Y2D2kLBHXXIEeGlgTvfjHO_3hYVjoSsWQ-aKM-LfvgCgSkgyLfT4e6p2pUY9p33m2nFPD234AwDl9uRoH_qJ63GAVmUcxgD9DS58iLUvbXOeQ5GuqOlWSig3ktCE5m-EsNgis9cYpsC/w224-h400/Matanzas03831.jpg" width="224" /></a></div><br />In 1999 and 2000 I went to Havana as a freelance writer on assignment
for Time Out, New York, to cover the Festival of New Latin American
cinema, which presents excellent (though unsubtitled) films--not only from Cuba but Argentina and many other Latin American countries-- that rarely make it to the US. Taking place annually in early December in dozens of 50s-style cinemas all over Havana, it's heavily attended by cinephile Cubans, many speaking more English than I Spanish. <p></p><p> [Due to 9/11, in 2001 I returned for the third and last time --with no
assignment--because the editor said: "This year we are not in a Havana state of mind." But that's another story.] </p><p>My strong, often emotional, first reactions to Havana's contradictions
were vividly conveyed to friends in New York and Europe
via hotmail, which unfortunately does not save your emails in perpetuity.
The city, beautiful but often dilapidated; the people, acutely perceptive about strangers but, in my experience, genuinely welcoming. They would even recognize me from year to year on Calle 23. </p><p>At first I was reluctant to take photos in public--more from not wanting to be seen as a tourist than from being afraid of being asked for payment. It seemed exploitative. </p><p>Sadly, US sanctions and maybe the collapse of the Soviet Union
had limited imports of building materials to repair thousands of
of historic buildings all over Cuba. </p><p>The photo is of a hallway in Matanzas, Cuba,
a (very) roughly 2-hour journey by rickety train from the Casablanca
station at Havana harbor. (And yes, Havana has its own Casablanca district reached by ferry from Havana Vieja.) </p><p> On the outward journey, a young Cuban boy with a machete
sat in my compartment. From my limited Spanish I learned
that this was for cutting sugar cane. </p><p> On the return trip from Matanzas, we had to wait 4 hours
at the station for the train to be repaired. Noticing
the camera slung around my shoulder, an orange seller
there asked me to take his photo, and that kind of changed
my attitude towards photographing Cubans--or at least street scenes. </p><p>He wrote his address on a piece of brown paper. I shipped the photo, and trust that it reached him.
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sunday July 28, 1968,
JFK. I've just disembarked from a London-New York charter flight via Iceland. It's the pre-credit card era. In my wallet is $50--that's what I'm allowed to take out of the UK, and a $200 Greyhound bus ticket for 2 months' unlimited cross country travel. Driving into Manhattan from the airport, from the bus window, the urban paraphernalia is new and different. The lamp posts arching, unsupported, ominous over the wider roads, the shrill, raucous, impatient traffic sounds, the oversized cars and trucks, giant bagels, muffins--the oversized glutinous helpings at the diner. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You may know Barbara Love as the co-author of Sappho Was a Right-On
Woman, or as the editor of Feminists Who Changed America, or as trouble
on the street for the patriarchy, but well before and long after these
endeavors, </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">until the age of 75,</span> she had another life as a champion swimmer, winning 500
medals for freestyle and butterfly. On April 6 1956
at age 19 she broke a World Relay Record in freestyle at Daytona
Beach, Florida--a highlight of her swimming career. It seems a good
occasion to celebrate, and why not, with this film, a quirky minidoc I made
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Story: WWII has ended. The arrival by train of two Orthodox Jews, father and son, throws the inhabitants of a nearby Hungarian village --a long walk from the station--into a maelstrom of fear, suspicion and havoc as they prepare for the wedding of the town clerk's son.</div>
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VIdeo: TRT 10:18 As time allowed, last week I spoke to Ferenc and Gabor about aspects of the original story, the screenplay, the film's structure, and characters with a bad conscience. --<a class="profileLink" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=698926290&extragetparams=%7B%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/liza.bear.56?fref=mentions" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Liza Béar</a></div>
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1945 Film credits: writer-director: Ferenc Torok; screenplay<br />
Gabor T. Szanto & Torok; director of photography: Elemer Ragalyi; editor: Bela Barsi; music: Tibor Szenzo; production design: Lazlo Rajk. Distributed by Menemsha Films in North America.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><b>Summer 1951--My mother Eliane, father Robert, brother Pierre age 4 </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><b>in an apartment with a terrace overlooking la Corniche. We were living in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England at the time. Photographer unknown. </b></span></span><b><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">August 9 is my parents' wedding anniversary. I</span></span><span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">n 1941, d</span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">uring WW11,they </span></span><span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">were married in a small village in Haute-Savoie in unoccupied France.</span><span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> </span></b><b style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace;">My father was a liaison officer in the Free French Army. According to family history he was a translator at a meeting between Eisenhower and De Gaulle.</b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7843841527405179020.post-11211688820388807592016-08-10T10:17:00.000-04:002016-08-10T10:22:31.902-04:00Erdogan Supplant Ataturk? Fat Chance.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Erdogan Supplant Ataturk? Fat Chance. At least, not in New Jersey. Ataturk, hero of modern Turkish secular state. After firing, jailing or torturing his critics and suspected Gullen sympathizers, will RET now go after Ataturk admirers? Photo Liza Béar, <br />Greenwich Village, New York City.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "monaco"; font-size: 14.0pt;">New York, June 27--The blue-eyed
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "monaco"; font-size: 14.0pt;">beat officer, perhaps of Irish descent, leaned </span><br />
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his patrol car. He watched </span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "monaco"; font-size: 14.0pt;">as I locked up my bike outside MacDonald's on </span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "monaco"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Went through </span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "monaco"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt;">the motions, that is, threading </span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "monaco"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I thought he was going to tell me
that locking </span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "monaco"; font-size: 14.0pt;">b/c I tend to move unhurriedly
compared to normal pedestrian traffic. But he did neither and </span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "monaco"; font-size: 14.0pt;">On the Fifth Avenue Pride march
that I filmed on Sunday, mostly the cops had been good-humored and cordial,
even stepping aside to get out of </span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "monaco"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt;">the frame. It's 47 years</span><br />
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Stonewall, and quite a large NYPD contingent marched, so this bonhomie, rather
than brusqueness </span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "monaco"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt;">or wolf-in-sheep's clothing-iness, may have been a </span><br />
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from the Pride spirit. Whatever the reason, being of a naturally curious
disposition, I struck up a desultory conversation, not unsuited to a hot summer
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "monaco"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt;">First, I asked the policeman
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "monaco"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt;">"Always," he confirmed.
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "monaco"; font-size: 14.0pt;">"Dealing?" I suggested.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "monaco"; font-size: 14.0pt;">"Not only," he said with
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "monaco"; font-size: 14.0pt;">"Stuff I'd rather not hear
about, I suppose," </span><br />
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officer. "The other day there</span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "monaco"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> was a stabbing."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "monaco"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt;">I asked him how long he'd been there
without shade. </span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "monaco"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt;">Eight and a half hours, he answered, hugging his </span><br />
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Poland Spring. Usually, but not today, </span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "monaco"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt;">he brought a sandwich from home. He
considered a</span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "monaco"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt;">"Even the salads?" I
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "monaco"; font-size: 14.0pt;">"Absolutely. The salads
too."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "monaco"; font-size: 14.0pt;">"What about the yogurt
parfait?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "monaco"; font-size: 14.0pt;">"The yogurt parfait is
okay."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "monaco"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt;">By this time the cable was securely
fastened. </span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "monaco"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt;">T</span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "monaco"; font-size: 18.3999996185303px; line-height: 26.6666660308838px;">o stabilize the bike, </span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "monaco"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt;">I gave the kickstand a </span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "monaco"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt;">sharp little kick to release it.</span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "monaco"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt;"> I decided to </span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "monaco"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt;">take a chance and spring for a Macyogurt </span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "monaco"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt;">before undertaking the long ride home. </span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "monaco"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt;">(The elevator was being repaired at the </span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "monaco"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt;">34th Street subway.)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "monaco"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt;">With my yogurt I perched on a stool
at a </span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "monaco"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt;">high counter, joining three young dark-haired </span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "monaco"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt;">tourists, a woman and two
men, speaking a </span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "monaco"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt;">not easily recognizable foreign language. </span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "monaco"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt;">But my trip to
Istanbul was only five years</span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "monaco"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt;">past, so to my table companions’ amazement,</span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "monaco"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt;">I
correctly identified it as Turkish.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "monaco"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt;">I hope they got home safely.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "monaco"; font-size: 14.0pt;">(c) Liza Béar 2016<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Photo (c) Liza Béar 2016</span>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "courier"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The man
with two blue buckets<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "courier"; font-size: 14.0pt;">One inside
the other, a snug fit<br />
<span class="textexposedshow">Strapped to the back of his rickety</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">hard-to-start motorbike</span><br />
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<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "courier"; font-size: 14.0pt;">For a paint job he said</span></span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "courier"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><br />
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<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "courier"; font-size: 14.0pt;">A few minutes later down the mountain road</span></span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "courier"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">In the same shot without a cut</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">Now stands with his feet in one bucket</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">The other over his head</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">Dolefully counting numbers in Mandarin</span><br />
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<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "courier"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The thugs who locked his bike</span></span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "courier"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">Stole his binoculars</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">Have sped off with a roar</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">Perhaps like the motorcyclists</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">Courted by Drumpf in Washington DC</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "courier"; font-size: 14.0pt;">You see <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "courier"; font-size: 14.0pt;">it’s hard to
forget that image <br />
b/c<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "courier"; font-size: 14.0pt;">in a comic strip of Grand Union</span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "courier"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Let’s see .
. Buffalo ...1973</span></span></div>
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Dancer Barbara Dilley says<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I'm bucketed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "courier"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><br />
She stands in a bucket<br />
Hers an improvisational choice<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "courier"; font-size: 14.0pt;">On the bike
path from the Metrograph<br />Under the leafy boughs spilling<br />
Over the fence on Chrystie Street<br />
I ride past <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "courier"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> stop, and
turn my head<br />
a jaunty gorse yellow taxi cab, parked<br />
Not one of the ubiquitous funereal Uber limos<br />
Its For Hire light on<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "courier"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Facing Mecca
flat on the ground<br />
At an angle in front of the cab<br />
A fringed, vividly purple prayer mat<br />
The driver is standing at one end<br />
Then crouches down in prayer position<br />
But not for long gets up again<br />
Up down up down repeating the ritual<br />
For fear of losing a fare<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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2016<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Photos Liza Béar</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 15.4559993743896px;">New York, April 2, 2016--Never underestimate procrastination. Returning hoome from a late Saturday afternoon prowl through the Union Square farmer's market--this week devoid of Bernie grassrooters , because registration to vote closed last Friday--reluctance to climb my building's intransigeant stairs and the proximity of that building to a prison-turned movie theatre, led me to cross the avenue instead and to catch Samuel Beckett's recently restored, wonderful silent 22-min </span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 15.4559993743896px;">b&w FILM: starring Buster Keaton, shot by Boris Kaufman, directed by Alan Schneider. Anthology Film Archives is screening FILM for free at 7pm every night through April 7. This very positively titled work precedes the new feature-length literally-titled documentary NOTFILM at 8pm (regular admission). Whether NF transcends its title I haven't yet been able to determine. In the meantime, the unavoidable ascent and the fading light yielded these photos.</span></b></span></td></tr>
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