Sara Gómez Project

Digitized, Subtitled, and Restored documentaries submitted to Criterion. They launched on their streaming service on Feb 1, 2025. A boxed DVD is forthcoming. This is the result of 4 years of work undertaken in the Vulnerable Media Lab by six graduate students, two post-doctoral fellows and three undergraduates. Afro-Cuban filmmaker, Sara Gómez made 19 documentaries and a feature film in Cuba before her very untimely death at 34 in 1974. Her feature film was restored recently by Arsenal Berlin. And we in the VML restored all of the documentaries available. Many of her films were neglected, in large part because she was a Black woman in a very macho and racist culture.