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'Unfinished Spaces' to premiere this weekend in Los Angeles

date added: 17.06.2011

Following their emotional exile from Cuba in 1965, three architects return forty years later to finish what was considered the world's most spectacular and futuristic art school, but was left to ruin by the country's Revolution.

In 1961, three young, visionary architects were commissioned by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara to create Cuba's National Art Schools on the grounds of a former golf course in Havana, Cuba. Construction of their radical designs began immediately and the school's first classes soon followed. Dancers, musicians and artists from all over the country reveled in the beauty of the schools, but as the dream of the Revolution quickly became a reality, construction was abruptly halted and the architects and their designs were deemed irrelevant in the prevailing political climate. Forty years later the schools are in use, but remain unfinished and decaying. Castro has invited the exiled architects back to finish their unrealized dream.

"Unfinished Spaces" features intimate footage of Fidel Castro, showing his devotion to creating a worldwide showcase for art, and it also documents the struggle and passion of three revolutionary artists whose inspiration and ideals could ultimately destroy them.
Directors Alysa Nahmias and Benjamin Murray

Subjects: famed architects Roberto Gottardi, Ricardo Porro and Vittorio Garratti

Screens:
Sunday, June 19, 4:00pm / LA Live Regal Cinemas
Friday, June 24, 7:00pm / LA Live Regal Cinemas
Saturday, June 25, 1:10pm / LA Live Regal Cinemas

All three architects will be making a special appearance at the premiere screening as well as attending a private party and discussion at the Getty Center during the festival.

Source: http://archinect.com/news/article/

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