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« A dictator and a revolutionary icon are on a golf course ». What could have been the beginning of a strange political private joke led to something far more odd than expected. Acting like pro-players at the British Open, the two figures of Cuba communism regime, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara came up that day with a loopy idea : build on the island the most magnificent art school of south America. What Is left from this titanic undertaking ? Didier Faustino tries to answer that question with his A « Walker To Explore Dead Buildings » project. On the occasion of the Cuba Art Bienale, the renowned architect/artist invites you to a real first person exploration video game through this edifice drained of his essence. In a tropical atmosphere at dawn. Three young bodies deploy a choreography over the roof of a utopian curved architecture. These melancholics and heteronymous characters wear metallic suits as a metaphor of a caged youth. The cameras placed on the structure as well as those witch gravitate around them give us the image of a wandering over the ruins of the Cuban Escuela De Ballet de La Havana. The films brings out the failure of this architectural and cultural utopia. The performance underline the memory of the desire for a better future. The scene of light and darkness intersperse themselves, Between exterior and interior, day and night, at the service of a fictional esthetic.