Mikhail Zheleznikov, Pebbles, 2018, film still, courtesy of the author
For three days in October 2021 Pushkin House is showcasing the best of recent Russian experimental cinema and artists' moving image, selected by the Moscow International Experimental Film Festival and initially presented during one of its iterations since 2016. Each evening the curator of the festival Dmitry Frolov will present the programme, followed by a short conversation between him and a curator from Pushkin House.
The event takes place on three consecutive evenings - Wednesday 20 October, Thursday 21 October and Friday 22 October. Each programme starts at 7pm and lasts for up to 2 hours.
DAY 1: IN THE WHIRLPOOL OF HISTORIES
The urban environment is a heterogeneous space, a place where different cultures, classes and voices connect or collide. Any big city is always in the process of transformation, changing its appearance and redefining the lives of people in it. Interestingly, memory is structured in a similar way — a fluid and unstable substance, full of failures, distortions and frequent substitutions. Historical discourse can be used by dominant ideologies to construct a social reality that is comfortable for them, but it can also serve as a source of knowledge that helps to resist this pressure and find people their place in time. In the Whirlpool of Histories consists of films that reflect on personal and public stories in the context of the urban landscape as a multidimensional cultural space.
PROGRAMME
Pebbles
Mikhail Zheleznikov
11 min | 2018
Three Dimensions of Time
Pim Zwier
14 min | 2016
Turo
Anton Ginzburg
35 min | 2016
27а
Daria Likhaya
17 min | 2021
The City Bridges Are Open Again
Masha Godovannaya
10 min | 2020
Q&A with Dmitry Frolov
15 mins
TICKETS
Standard tickets: £12 per programme, £25 for all three evenings
Friends and Muses of Pushkin House: £9 per programme, £19 for all three evenings.
Young Pushkin (26 and under): £7 per programme, £15 for all three evenings.
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