Young Rebels
What is hip-hop when you take it out of American inner cities—subtracting drugs, crime, bling and substituting a socialist economy and revolutionary spirit? In Cuba, you get teenagers and twenty-somethings sharing $2 quarts of rum and riffing on themes from U.S. imperialism to Eminem’s “I’m Shady.” Filmmakers Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden (Gowanus, Brooklyn, ND/NF 2004) explore the scene, leading up to the National Hip-Hop Festival. Independent for years, the festival was co-opted in 2003 by a state institution and now the lines have been drawn, throwing artists, producers, and fans into heated debate on being an artist in Cuba today. USA/Cuba, 2005. 70 min. Preceded by THE GOSPEL OF THE CREOLE PIG. In poetic meter, Michelange Quay bares the West’s pillaging of the Third World. Haiti, 2004. 19 min.
W-28b Mon March 28 at 9pm
M-2d Sat April 2 at 9:15pm
A Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center
W Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center
M The Museum of Modern Art