2024-08-13 19:29:13
Renowned Cuban documentary filmmaker and photographer Roberto Chile highlighted exclusively to Prensa Latina that revolutionary leader Fidel Castro’s travels around the world are the most important part of his journalistic career, having documented his worldwide travels on for years.
On the 98th anniversary of Fidel’s birth today, Chile said that there were many memories of those years in which he followed the Commander everywhere, without hesitation and without fear, with a video camera in his mind and a light in his soul.
With Fidel in Playitas de Cajobabo on April 25, 1995. Pedro Álvarez Tabio and Juan Matos are also seen in the photo. Photo: Courtesy of the interviewee.
Prensa Latina expanded on the matter and asked the experienced filmmaker what it meant to accompany Fidel as a cameraman for years on his official tours around the world.
More than 60 trips were made to dozens of countries on different continents; and visits and trips to Cuba from one end to another, because Fidel was everywhere, with the people, in moments of victory and the most difficult, he expressed.
So, together with my colleagues, we documented for years the revolutionary work of a unique and unrepeatable man, a universal leader, a giant in history.
With Fidel in Camagüey after Hurricane Kate. Photo: Courtesy of the interviewee.
For Chile, working with Fidel was a great experience. When I remember those days, which were years, it makes me emotional, he said. Because that work that I spent body and soul with was, is and will be, the most important thing in my entire journalistic life.
By engaging in significant moments of this phase. The documentary filmmaker recalled that he retains many experiences from those years of work with Fidel. «There are so many memories, it seems that I have seen them sometimes, because time does not erase them or destroy them. Although I sometimes saw him day after day – and not from afar, but very close – he never ceased to impress me.
On the trips, he added, wherever they went; In his meetings, with people of the first class and with the men or women of the town, I gave everything without missing a detail, to capture with my camera everything that happened in front of me. Because everything seemed important to me, because everything was history to me.
In light of Tuesday. Photo: Roberto Chile.
Asked what it means to him to record so many images about the leader that today make up documentaries and other audiovisuals that comprise the nation’s audiovisual heritage, he replied:
I think I have done my time, and although very little of everything we filmed during those years has been seen, those enviable images are, sometimes inaccessible, but they are there. One day others will be in charge of recording those archives in depth and responsibly to show Cuba and the world that close, sensitive, human Fidel that Cuba, especially the younger people, should be the better knowledge.
Chile in the dialogue with Prensa Latina not only recalled the dozens of international trips with the leader, but also when she accompanied Fidel throughout Cuba, from the east to the west, on numerous trips and working visits in times of disasters natural, mass accidents, sugar harvest. , visits to construction sites, sugar mills and cane fields, factories, hospitals, universities, schools, popular mobilization, mass events, meetings with party leaders and the government, and more.
Behind the lens, Chile left graphic evidence of Fidel’s meetings with prominent figures in contemporary history, including his speeches; interviews; press conference; official and informal conversations and meetings with people from Cuba and the world; and with the men and women of the town.
Juan Matos, Roberto Chile and Salvador Combarro. Photo: Courtesy of the interviewee.
The result of this selfless work, together with the valuable colleagues on his team – Salvador Combarro, Juan Matos and Leonardo Diago -, is the many news, chronicles, reports and documentaries that are today part of the audiovisual heritage of the Cuban nation.
Taken from Latin Press
Cover photo: In Lennon Park in Vedado. Image: Courtesy of the interviewee.
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