THE BAY, WE WERE THINKING HOW TO PERFORM A NUCLEAR ACTION (Nuclear City-Havana, 2018)
In the facilities of the ex-Juragua nuclear power plant (Cuba), a hazardous waste dumpster is being built. The inhabitants of the Nuclear City barely know about this, or its consequences. Yunet wants to make a film to denounce what is happening. «The Bay…» is an artistic laboratory that approaches cinema as a process: an unfinished process and also a process that can be intervened and redefined. It is a performance-movie that works with the idea of transforming a utopian space (the Juraguá Plant) into another reality free of current prejudices and taboos. Through the activation of the short film The bay, a self-titled book about the process, a travel diary, archive documents and images, a musical concert and other actions… politics, desires and the construction of happiness are debated.
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Drawings of the construction of the Nuclear City
Yunet, the filmmaker, visiting the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant, Visaginas, Lithuania (2017)
Construction of Juraguá nuclear power plant (June 1987)
Nuclear City (current photography)
Poster for the short film The Bay. Co-directed with Ricardo Sarmiento
Yunet in her first years as a student. José González Primary School, Nuclear City (June 1988)
Construction of the Nuclear City (photo from the late 1980s)
The Bay (Sinsentido Editions, 2018)
Juraguá nuclear power plant (current-photography)
Nuclear power plant construction workers at the end of the 1980s.
Illustration for the book The Bay. Composition and design: Martha Luisa Hernández Cadenas
Concert with the group Souvenir. Yunet sings her version of Amorfoda (Bad Bunny).
Fishing village and Castillo de Jagua: Spanish military fortress located very close to the Nuclear City (current photography)
First news about the construction of the nuclear plant (National newspaper, December 1973)
Juraguá nuclear power plant (current-photography)
Presentation of the book The Bay (September 2018)
Fidel Castro visiting the construction of the plant.
A view of the Juraguá nuclear power plant from the Nuclear City