NO FESTIVAL REQUIRED PRESENTS “BUILDING COMMUNITY CINEMA”

“Unfinished Spaces”

Directed by Alysa Nahmias and Benjamin Murray

thursday may 16, 2013, 8pm

BRAGGS PIE FACTORY

1301 NW Grand Avenue, Phoenix AZ

FREE SCREENING-PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN CHAIR!

Sponsored by Phoenix Revitalization Corporation and Butler Housing Company

TRAILER- http://www.unfinishedspaces.com/trailer.html

“Cuba will count as having the most beautiful academy of arts in the world.” —Fidel Castro (1961)

Cuba’s ambitious National Art Schools project, designed by three young artists in the wake of Castro’s Revolution, is neglected, nearly forgotten, then ultimately rediscovered as a visionary architectural masterpiece.

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.

Best to you!

Steve Weiss, Executive Director, No Festival Required LLC