Florian Zeyfang, Alexander Schmoeger, Lisa Schmidt-Colinet
Microbrigades – Variations of a Story (2013)
A Film by Florian Zeyfang / Lisa Schmidt-Colinet / Alexander Schmoeger
World Premiere at the 63. Berlinale 2013 Forum Expanded
German Competition at Oberhausener Kurzfilmtage 2013
Aside from health care and education, housing was one of the main pillars of the revolution in Cuba. Due to the perpetual lack of living quarters, the “Microbrigadas” were set up in 1971. Until today these construction units continue to build their own multi-story apartment blocks as well as community buildings all over Cuba. Images of architecture, archival material, and interviews are combined into an experimental collage about this phenomenon of a revolutionary modernity.
Direction: Florian Zeyfang / Lisa Schmidt-Colinet / Alexander Schmoeger
Camera: Florian Zeyfang
Photographes: Alexander Schmoeger
Sound: Lisa Schmidt-Colinet
Montage: Florian Zeyfang
Sound design: Florian Zeyfang
Digital Mastering: Christoph Manz
Texts: Florian Zeyfang / Lisa Schmidt-Colinet / Alexander Schmoeger
Drawings: schmidt-colinet.schmoeger
Architecture models: schmidt-colinet.schmoeger / zeyfang
Sites: San Agustin, Alamar, Havana del Este, Havana, Cienfuegos
Research base Havana: LASA laboratorio artístco de san agustin
Research collaboration: Aurélie Sampeur, Candelario
Architectonical collaboration: Esther Suarez
Production assistance: Danay Gil Martínez
Production: Fokussy Prod.