this is an odd one; a documentary(ish) about the trip that i took last christmas (2016) to cuba with jason webley, jherek and mayumi. we played a show with an all-female string ensemble named camerata romeu, we made a bizarre music video with a ton of cuban artists using my patreon funding, and we explored what was happening.
i don’t know if it really cuts through in the documentary, but my biggest thoughts down there were about progress, connection…community. how we define it. what we consider progress: technologically, artistically, politically, with our relationships, with our children.
i would like to thank all the artists – dozens and dozens of them – who helped on the angel gabriel video, at these shows, and on this documentary.
we definitely captured….something.
THE CREDITS
directed by Juan Carlos Zaldivar
THANK YOU TO MY PATRONS
your funding made this ALL possible
produced by Phonograph Films LLC
in association with Eight Foot Records
camera: Juan Carlos Zaldivar
additional camera: Andres Levin and Tousain Ávila
sound recording: Estéban Bruzón
graphic design: Octopus Studios
color grading: Andres Garzas
featured artists
(in alphabetical order)
Alejandro Piñeiro – painter
Amanda Palmer
Anaylin Sanchez
Andres Levin
Andros Perrugorría – Jesus
Anna & Ingrid Mattinger
Ash – baby
Benny Grotto
Carlos Jimenez
Celia Ledon – costumes
Chris Beuscher – tourist
Douglas Fernandez
Guadalupe Blazquez – archangel
Israel Buergo
Jason Webley
Jherek Bischoff
Joaquin Portocarero
Jorge Nonell – child
Jose A. Soto
Jose Alvarez Calero – man
Jose Gandul
Juan Carlos Zaldivar
Juan Felipe Sanchez – the queen
Julio Alcala
Justine Marzack – Jean D’Arc
Laura Sanford – tourist
Livia Batista – casting
Maria Fernanda Gavilan – child
Mayumi Heider
Mercedes Ciria – tattoo woman
Nuñez Astorga
Raul Reinoso – dancer
Rogelio Conde – hair & make-up
Roque Carlos
Roxana Macía – angel Gabriel
Veronica de la Torre
William Ulises Gascon
Yasser Dominguez – dancer
Zeleidy Crespo – dancer
Camerata Romeu
director: Zenaida Romeu
First Violins
Anabel Estévez Acosta
Liliam Marta Llanes González
Amelia Febles Díaz
María de Lourdes Pomares Lima
Noelia María García Olivera
Second Violins
Yadira Cobo Rodríguez
Camila Martel Pérez
Adria Gómez Báez
Maite Gómez Estévez
Violas
Lisbet Sevila Brizuela
Denia León Cedeño
Beatriz Brígida Piloto Rodríguez
María Teresa Lussón Santos
Cellos
María Carla Llera Soler
Mara Mercedes Navas García
Bass: Caridad Zaldivia Lores
production assistant: Alejandro Boza Bonzon
special thanks to
Jordan Verzar
Hayley Rosenblum
Michael McComiskey
Hugh Howey
Livia
Mad Oak Studio
Neil Gaiman
Nick & Brittney at Fame House
Nilda Martinez
SuperKate
Susan Lazarus
Bill H
Songs (alphabetical)
“Ashes to Ashes” – David Bowie
“Dae” – Jherek Bischoff
“Everybody Knows” – Leonard Cohen
“I Made a Promise to the Moon” – Jason Webley
“Missed Me” – The Dresden Dolls
“Space Oddity” – David Bowie
“The Angel Gabriel” – Traditional Basque Carol
“The Killing Type” – Amanda Palmer