Coyula: five shorts

Resource Information

The work Coyula: five shorts represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Bowdoin College Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Coyula: five shorts

Statement of responsibility

Latin America Video Archives

Title variation

• Coyula: 5 shorts
• Miguel Coyula's shorts
• Five shorts

Contributor

• Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV
• Latin American Video Archives
• Producciones Pirámide
• Bernando, Yanet, 1969-
• Castillo, Miguel, 1977-
• Coyula, Miguel
• Heber, Milian, 1977-
• Montas, Ayaibex
• Pederiva, Cristiane
• Royas, Mayra

Subject

• Coyula, Miguel -- Interviews
• Documentary films
• Drama
• Experimental films
• Families -- Drama
• Foreign films
• Interviews
• Maggi, Jacqueline
• Man-woman relationships -- Drama
• Motion pictures, Cuban
• Short films
• Video recordings
• Videorecording

Genre

• Documentary films
• Drama
• Experimental films
• Interviews
• Short films
• Video recordings

Language

spa

Summary

• Detalles: Experimental short that revolves around a troubled young couple
• Idea: Children in an isolated village outside of Havana find their creativity sparked by the arrival of documentary filmmakers in this nonfiction piece. Coyula coaches the youngsters philosophically in storytelling and technically in filmmaking, and suddenly a font of inspiration wells up, centering around a dark cave near the edge of town
• Bailar sobre agujas: A young couple's dealings with a sinister older man bring out repressed emotions and feelings from all parties in this dense, unsettling, yet stylized award-winning short
• Buena onda: A fragile, skittish young woman one day finds an odd instrument that crash-lands out of the sky. She uses it to make unearthly music and unusual art, much to the chagrin of the callous, callow friends and family around her. Finally, driven too far by her slacker brother's friends and disengaged from her family, she lashes out in a sudden burst of ultra-violence
• Ajuares: Art video about the work of Cuban artist and sculptor Jacqueline Maggi
• Clase Z "Tropical": Parody of Hollywood's action independent films dramatizing the typical trailer of a post Tarantino B-movie

Awards note

• Detalles: Winner of Best Experimental Short award at Festival Almacén de la Imagen, Cuba
• Bailar sobre agujas: Best Director, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography and Best Sound awards at Festival Almacén de la Imagen, Cuba
• Buena onda: Special Award of the Jury Cineplaza Video and Film Festival
• Clase Z "Tropical": FIPRESCI Award, Best Experimental Film, Best Editing, Best Sound

Cataloging source

FQG

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Producer, director, writer, composer, art director: Miguel Coyula. "Idea": Written by Miguel Coyula and Ayaibex Montas, directed by Miguel Coyula. "Bailar": Written by Cristiane Pederiva

Language note

In Spanish, with subtitles in English

PerformerNote

Detalles (Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión, 1998): Lourdes Maydel Ojeda (woman), Marta Rodriguez (mother), Narud Rodriguez (man). Bailar sobre agujas (Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión / Pirámide, 1999): Yanet Bernando (young woman), Jorge Alí (older man), Arturo Mora (young boyfriend). Buena onda (Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión, 1999): Yanet Bernando (Yanet), Rigoberto Ferrera (Robin), Blanca Rosa Blanco (Psychologist), Ivan Botello (Robin's friend), Heber Milian (Robin's friend), Ariadna del Carmen (Robin's girlfriend), Maria Delfina Garcia (Mother), Osvaldo Perez (Father). Clase Z "Tropical" (Pirámide, 2000): Mayra Rojas (Adriana Gonzales), Miguel Castillo (The Madman), Romel Orta (Adriana's boyfriend), Heber Milian (Private eye), Alejandro Álvarez (Reporter)

Runtime

100

Technique

live action