Fito Páez con La Habana al fondo. Restaurante La Guarida, 2022. (Todas las fotos fueron aportadas por los productores del documental)

“Havana at your feet / I would not know how to love you in another way”

It’s almost there. Some color adjustments, the transfer to Digital Signal Processing (DSP) of the material and already Fito’s Havana, a documentary by Cuban director Juan Pin Vilar, would be ready to be served to viewers in Cuba and the world. More than one hundred minutes of vibrant testimonies, interviews and archive images put into context the endearing relationship of Fito Páez, an essential figure of rock en español, with the city and his intense and contradictory future.

In Havana Fito has sung, made friends, loved and has been a participant in the joys and sorrows of the common citizen, the one to whom he attributes a generosity and a capacity to rejoice that is disappointment-proof.

During the filming of the central interview. Havana 2022.

The backbone of the film is several interviews with the Argentine singer-songwriter, in Havana and Buenos Aires. Out loud he narrates how the threads of a reciprocal love were intertwined between him and the capital of Cuba, a place where he has several generations of followers. Contributing to the story, and in what way, are the testimonies of Pablo Milanés, Cecilia Roth, Carlos Alfonso, Ele Valdés, Luis Alberto García and Wendy Guerra, among others; sometimes as exceptional witnesses —Cecilia was his partner on part of that tour— and other times as mere spectators, young people who felt that Fito’s songs spoke directly to them.

“Havana at your feet / I would not know how to love you in another way”
Juan Pin and the actor Luis Alberto García, one of the interviewees. Cathedral Square, 2022.

Fito’s first — fleeting — contact with Havana occurred in April 1987, when he came to participate in the 6th Varadero Popular Music Festival. This edition of the event is remembered for the meeting of luminaries such as María Bethania, Chico Buarque, Gilberto Gil, Irakere, Harry Belafonte, Van Van, Silvio and Elena Burque, among others. But, above all, it is memorable for the debut of a very thin and gangly boy who sang, with his whole body, pieces of wild pain. On that occasion, we Cubans collided live with a rock in Spanish that was not epigonal or mimetic, but rather came charged with the recognition and assumption of being Latin American. Fito won the public’s heart and the public won Fito’s heart, which had been broken after a huge family tragedy.

The artist has spoken about the latter on several occasions, and in the documentary, once again, he captures it. His trip to Cuba, at the invitation of Pablo Milanés, literally saved his life. A year earlier, an aunt and her grandmother had been murdered in the city of Rosario. Pablo, as he himself tells it, saw in the euphoria of the Argentine, in his bright eyes, the mark of pain and offered him the only remedy within his reach: to sing, to remake himself, to perform the prodigy of turning his music into the expression of many . Without that opportunity for contact with the Cuban people, Fito acknowledges, he would not be the same.

“Havana at your feet / I would not know how to love you in another way”
During the filming of the central interview. Havana 2022.

Juan Pin Vilar set out to create a work that was not nostalgic. But he didn’t quite get it. You can’t ask Cuban Fito fans not to be assaulted over and over again by the sweet sentiment. Impossible that those who were present at his concert in the Plaza de la Revolución in December 1993 (one hundred thousand people, according to the Spanish newspaper The country), do not cringe at the images. Well, it’s not just a matter of reviewing a moment, but of remembering who we were then, when we fell in love and sang “Cable a tierra”, “11 y 6”, “Ambarvioleto”, “Giros”… The same thing happens with whom they were in October 2014 (Leo Brouwer Music Festival) and in June 2016 (closing concert for the thirtieth anniversary of the phonogram twists) at the Karl Marx, where Rosario set fire to the nights.

“Habana”, the song that Fito dedicated to the city, had its world premiere in Lenin Park in May 1997, during a solidarity concert with AIDS patients organized by Pablo Milanés, and in which Joaquín Sabina also joined. . Precisely that very inspired piece is now heard in the documentary with a new arrangement, specially made for the occasion, in the voices of Pablo Milanés, Pancho Céspedes, Cimafunk and, of course, Fito. A gift of incalculable artistic value.

The project Fito’s Havana obtained for its realization one of the economic supports of the second edition of the Fund for the Promotion of Cuban Cinema. The script and direction were carried out by Juan Pin Vilar (Havana, 1963), who had the collaboration of Ricardo Figueredo and Josué García (production), Raúl Prado (Photography), Marian Quintana (editing) and Velia Díaz de Villalvilla. (soundtrack).

“Havana at your feet / I would not know how to love you in another way”
Juan Pin and the photographer Raúl Prado at work.

Juan Pin has directed more than one hundred broadcasts for Cuban television in different genres, including fiction materials One night with Nora (1988), Players (1990), Happy Birthday (1997), The executioner (2002) and the red bridge (2013). He is also the author of the documentary Paul Milanes (2015), not yet exhibited in Cuba.

In a few days Fito’s Havana you will begin your route through festivals and exhibition halls. Let’s wait, expectantly, the meeting with the Cubans, his natural audience.

The Argentine has written and sung: “If we do not choose to live, I would like to die in Havana”1. Long journey for this new work of national cinematography. Long live Fito; we still need his songs.

Note:

1 These, and the verses that make up the title of this note, belong to the song “Habana”.

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