Miguel Coyula
Directing
Biography
Miguel Coyula (Havana, March 31, 1977) is a Cuban filmmaker and writer. He is a graduate of the Directing Specialty at the International Film and Television School (EICTV) in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. Coyula has worked on his films outside the industry, exercising various disciplines, and usually taking several years to complete. His work is characterized by the use of allegory and collage, in a hybrid of genres and styles. He has been described by international critics as a virtuoso and a renovator. The protagonists of his films are generally misfits with a frontal critical vision of society and its political figures, both in Cuba and when he has filmed abroad. The controversial nature of his work, which also includes explicit sex, has led him to often be called the enfant terrible of Cuban cinema.
Known For
An intellectual leaves the Cuban revolution and 'underdevelopment' behind only to find himself at odds with the ambiguities of his new life in the 'developed' world. A portrait of alienation, of an outsider with no clear-cut politics or ideology. A stranger in a strange land struggling with old age, sexual desire and ultimately the impossibility for the individual to belong in any society. The film's narrative is a collage of flashbacks, daydreams, and hallucinations comprising live-action, animation, and newsreel footage assembled to suggest the way personal memory works, subjectively and emotionally.
Memories of Overdevelopment
Half blind and half deaf, ostraziced Cuban writer Rafael Alcides tries to finish his unpublished novels to discover that after several decades, the home made ink from the typewriter he used to write them has faded. The Cuban revolution as a love story and eventual deception is seen through the eyes of a man who is living an inner exile.
Nobody
First of a Trilogy: In a New York ravaged with acid rains, a man in his twenties meets a mysterious, yet familiar young woman who disrupts the banality of his day-to-day existence. Together, they will embark on a surreal journey with a devastating climax.
Red Cockroaches
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Interrogatorio al artista cubano Javier Caso
In an alternate reality, Fidel Castro uses genetic engineering to build the new man and thus save utopia. The experiment fails as these beings are highly intelligent but also cruel and uncontrollable. Rejected by their own creators, a group organizes a series of terrorist actions, and chaos reigns on the island. One of its members traces the origin of their genes and begins a journey to try to discover their humanity.
Blue Heart
Alienation and anger in modern society resulting in apocalypse.
Light Valve
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Últimos días en el asilo Chung Wah
Parody of Hollywood's action blockbusters using the typical trailer of a B-movie.
Clase Z Tropical
In Cuba, artists have to be recognized by one of the state-sponsored art institutions that ensure their work complies with the state’s vision and policy. Existing as an independent artist means having no income and no rights, and being subjected to various forms of control and intimidation.