Supermalo
2021 Β· 15m Β· Documentary
As the walls of Cuba's ageing infrastructure continue to crumble, a burgeoning street art scene is born in Havana. Murals of hand-painted masked character β Supermalo β with the tag β2+2=5?β have begun to appear in seemingly every corner of the heavily foot trafficked city.
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