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New Orleans Film Society

Unfinished Spaces

USA 86 min.

Director
Alysa Nahmias
Director
Benjamin Murray
Director of Photography
Benjamin Murray
Producer
Benjamin Murray
Producer
Alysa Nahmias
Editor
Kristen Nutile
Editor
Alex Minnick
  • Trailer: Unfinished Spaces

Synopsis

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.