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“Fidel es Fidel” photographic
exhibition inaugurated
Works by director Roberto Chile
Photo: Roberto Chile
The
photographic and audiovisual exhibition “Fidel es
Fidel” by cinematographer Roberto Chile, dedicated
to the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel
Castro Ruz’s 88th birthday, was inaugurated Tuesday,
August 12, at the José Martí Memorial, in Havana.
Present at the inauguration were Comandante de la
Revolución Guillermo García Frías; Decorated Hero of
Playa Girón José Ramón Fernández; director of the
Martí Program Office,
Armando Hart; and
leaders of the Party and Young Communist League,
among others.
In
the catalogue of works, which will remain open to
the public through September 28, journalist Arleen
Rodríguez stated that since the days of the Sierra,
the olive green uniform has been the most visible
symbol of the unyielding guerilla.
She
commented that, at times, for reasons of protocol,
he wore the guayabera or a classic dark suit, but
would immediately put the campaign uniform back on,
with epaulettes showing the red and black diamond
between laurels, the emblem of the revolutionary
leader.
“So
it was until that fateful day when his Proclamation
left us mute with anguish: his personal decision to
relinquish the responsibilities he had held, due to
popular acclamation, until then. He seemed to have
put aside the uniform of so many difficult, glorious
battles, with whose threads had been sown decisive
moments of modern history,” stated Rodríguez.
She
added that Fidel is Fidel. “He said it before and
who knows it better than any of us. Fidel knows how
much the olive green uniform and the star of
Comandante en Jefe mean to a people who nurture our
resistance with our own history,” she emphasized.
She
pointed out that after many long uncertain months,
Fidel, the soldier of acute, provocative ideas,
reappeared. He was the same, his telescopic rifle
had become a weapon of universal scope, the living
word, with which he aimed at matters which didn’t
seem to concern the leaders of the first world, at a
time when the long term view can make the difference
between the survival or extinction of all living
species.
Roberto Chile, who for more than 25 years has
captured the image in motion of Fidel Castro, let
his film camera rest, instead choosing the fixed
image to immortalize the transcendence of those
decisive moments in history and by doing so, freeze
in time, the epic symbol of a iconic man who has
fought his entire life, she concluded. (Excerpts
from Cubadebate)
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