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On the left, Sara Gomes, known as Sarita,
the first woman, the first black woman
filmmaker in Cuba. On the right, Michèle Firk,
a student at the IDHEC and a film critic in
Paris. In a different history one might have
reviewed the other's films, they might
have met at festivals and had long
conversations. In this history things
happened otherwise. In September
of 68 in Guatemala, where she had
joined the armed struggle, Michèle
committed suicide so as not to fall
into the hands of the police alive.
Sarita died a so-called natural acath.
of asthma, but asthma only kills when
the medicine doesn't arrive, and the
medicine didn't arrive in Cuba because of
the embargo. So both of them died of history.
and I can't look calmly at this photo that brings
them together. That's probably why. despite all that's
happened since I still can't speak of those years in Cuba
with the tranquility, detachment and objectivity that do
honor to the real intellectuall.