Humberto Calzada (Havana, Cuba 1944-2025) was a Cuban-American artist whose career spanned over 40 years. Calzada's work is strongly influenced by his native city's colonial and neoclassical architecture. He is renowned for placing its architectural imagery in surreal, dreamlike settings to explore themes of loss, decay, and rebirth. His art matured, evolved, and lay roots in Miami all the while attempting to salvage and reconstruct his lost home and homeland. This documentary, Para construir otra casa ("To Build Another House"), endeavors to explain how his personal and spiritual loss, as remembered or imagined from afar, affected his art and legacy.
 
Eliecer Jimenez Almeida (Vertientes, Cuba, 1983) is an independent filmmaker and Cuban video artist, founder of ikaik films (2008), a project dedicated to independent and experimental cinema. Many of his works, such as Usufructo (2011), La Faz de las Aguas (2012), and Persona (2014) have received prestigious awards. His most recent film, Veritas (2022), has been part of the PBS, Amazon Prime, Apple TV, and Kanopy catalogs since 2024. He holds a diploma in Documentary Directing from the EICTV in San Antonio de los Baños, and earned two master’s degrees from FIU in Mass Communication (2022) and Hispanic Literature (2025). He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at FIU, researching Cuban diaspora cinema.

This event is free and open to the public. It will be held in Spanish and English. 
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