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Pictures from a Revolution

Introduction by Susan Meiselas and Alfred Guzzetti
Screening on Film
Directed by Susan Meiselas, Alfred Guzzetti and Richard Rogers.
US, 1991, 16mm, color, 90 min.
English and Spanish with English subtitles.

In 1978, photographer Susan Meiselas documented the insurrection in Nicaragua that overthrew the dictator Anastasio Somoza and brought the Sandinistas to power—work that won her the Robert Capa Award for courage in photojournalism and resulted in her acclaimed book Nicaragua: June 1978–July 1979. Just before the tenth anniversary of the revolution, Meiselas returned to Nicaragua with filmmakers Dick Rogers and Alfred Guzzetti to discover what had happened to the people pictured in her book after a decade of revolution. What results is a remarkable meeting of the artistic and the real in a portrait of the vitality of the Nicaraguan people amidst the devastation of war.

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