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av福利社 Announces Winner of the 2014 av福利社 Award for Film and Video
Apr 11, 2014
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The Society of Architectural Historians (av福利社) presented the inaugural av福利社 Award for Film and Video to Alysa Nahmias and Benjamin Murray for their film Unfinished Spaces at the 2014 Annual Conference in Austin, Texas. The award was established in 2013 to recognize annually the most distinguished work of film or video on the history of the built environment.
Unfinished Spaces (Bullfrog Films, 2012) is a multi-layered story of Cuba’s National Art Schools project, designed by three young artists, Ricardo Porro, Vittorio Garatti and Roberto Gottardi, in the wake of Castro’s Revolution. Fidel Castro and Che Guevara commissioned the architects to create the complex of schools on the grounds of a former golf course in Havana, Cuba. Dancers, musicians and artists flocked to the schools, but construction was abruptly halted due to the prevailing political climate. The project was nearly forgotten and then ultimately rediscovered as a visionary architectural masterpiece.
“Unfinished Spaces presents a concise history of 20th-century Cuba through the lens of this fascinating subject. Through the filmmakers’ use of rich archival and contemporary texts, film and still images, we meet the schools’ architects then and now, and watch the intriguing, and frustrating, journey they take,” said the selection committee.
Applications for the 2015 av福利社 Award for Film and Video open on June 1, 2014. Visit for more information.
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