Armageddon 2
2017 · 6m · CU
Directed by Corey Hughes
Genres: documentary, experimental
Tones: contemplative, provocative
Shot in Cuba, this hybrid documentary-narrative-experimental short immerses itself in el paquete semanal — the weekly black market hard drive that circulates movies, TV, and information across a country where the internet crawls.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A Locarno-awarded hybrid short that turns Cuba's offline media black market into a meditation on how stories survive infrastructure collapse.
Hughes makes the invisible visible — the film's formal structure mirrors its subject, a data packet passed hand to hand. That kind of conceptual rigor on a shoestring is exactly the kind of filmmaking this vault exists to preserve.
Made inside Herzog's Cuba workshop, about el paquete semanal — the meta-irony alone is something, but Corey Hughes's hybrid mode (Ben Rivers, Lisandro Alonso are the right references) suggests genuine ethnographic patience. Locarno Pardi di Domani Special Jury Mention isn't given out for nothing.
Festivals
- Locarno Film Festival 2018, Special Jury Mention