Humberto Calzada

A Cuban American Painter

Featuring Humberto Calzada the film looks back into the artist's early life in Havana before the Cuban Revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power. Humberto Calzada represents the side of the Cuban-American equation on the north side of the Gulf Stream. His meticulous attempt to reconstruct the past is evident in in his attempts to reconstruct Havana-on-canvas.

In many ways, Calzada epitomizes the exiled who acknowledges the impossibility of a return to Ithaca: "The Havana I used to know is just another imaginary place", he says on this intimate portrait of a man gravitating a constant state of melancholy. Original Music by Gerardo Aguillon (violin) and Jose Angel Navarro (guitar).