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Unfinished Spaces

date added: 13.06.2011

Alysa Nahmias and Ben Murray (Ajna Film), Producers and Directors

Unfinished Spaces (2011) is a feature length documentary film that tells the turbulent story of the Cuban Revolution through its most significant architectural achievement—Cuba’s National Art Schools—and the lives of the architects who built them.

The film follows the history of the schools from 1961 when Castro and Che commission Ricardo Porro, Vittorio Garatti, and Roberto Gottardi to design “the world’s most beautiful art school” on a former golf course. During the Cold War, construction stops and the architects are branded counter–revolutionary. Fifty years later, in 1999, Castro invites them back to finish their unrealized dream and reconsider the country’s utopian ideals. Unfinished Spaces also features well-known Cuban artists who have attended the schools, including Mirtha Ibarra, Ever Fonseca, Manuel Lopez–Oliva, Felipe Dulzaides, Dafnis Prieto, and Kcho; and the voices of architects known for their expertise in Cuba, such as John Loomis, Mario Coyula, and Selma Diaz. Unfinished Spaces is not a heavy political documentary; audiences will be engaged with cinematic storytelling, unique characters, and a novel portrayal of Revolutionary Cuba. >

http://unfinishedspaces.com/trailer.html

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