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Balagan
is honored to present two Russian Experimental Film
and Video programs. These program presents works
by film and video artists of the 90s. Most of the works
have been created at the numerous independent studios
formed after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The programs
are curated by Masha Godovannaya and sponsored by Finnair.
Woodcutter
16mm, 6 min, 1985
Director: Yevgeni Yufit
An
eccentric and absurd comedy with endless non-stop
fighting, chasing, murders and suicides which are
intercut with Soviet symbols of peace and freedom--white
doves flying away from hand of "pioneers"-- and documentary
footage of the pioneers' everyday lives. Yevgenii
Yufit was born in 1961 in Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
In the early 1980s he began working as a painter and
art photographer. In 1985 he set up the first independent
film studio in Russia, MZHALALA FILM, which brought
together artists, writers, directors and others sympathetic
to radical aesthetic experimentation. At this studio
Yufit made a number of films which have been shown
at the worldıs major film festivals including Montreal,
Locarno, Toronto, Rotterdam and Moscow. His film,
"Daddy, Frost is Dead" was awarded the Grand Prix
at the Rimini Film Festival in Italy. Yufitıs paintings
and photographs have been shown in major exhibitions
of contemporary Russian art since 1985, at the Sate
Russian Museum, St. Petersburg; The Museum of Modern
Art, New York; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Kunsthalle,
Dusseldorf; Kunstverein, Hanover and The Museum of
Modern Art, Mexico City. Works by Yufit are to be
found in museums, galleries and private collections
both in Russia and abroad.
Air
Creatures video, 6min, 2000
Director: Leonid Tishkov
The second video performance by Leonid Tishkov and
colleagues, which shows the wind as sculptor. Their
first performance was depicted in the video "Pictures
of Wind" which showed the wind as painter. Leonid
Tishkov was born in a small town in the Ural Mountains
in 1953. He graduated from a medical school in Moscow
in 1978 but soon abandoned his career as a surgeon
to become an artist. He admits that his medical education
helps him in his art: "I very often use special drawings
from medical books and I also use very special themes
from biological science." His cast of characters includes
walking stomachs, deep-sea divers, elephants, and
assorted human organs.
Scarlet
Floweret video, 5min, 1997
Director:
Natasha Borissova
Dance
over the snow. Natasha Borissova has created
this piece while at Theremin Center (Moscow Conservatory).
Quran
video, 6min, 1999
Director:
Vadim Kouzenkov
Dance
of the lights.
Postindustrial
Dreams video, 9min, 1995
Director:
Dmitrii Trofimov
A
shaman-like dance on the ruins of Industrial Society.
Video
Trash video, 8min, 1999
Director: Dimitii Trofimov
Video
Collage from porn-films.
16
mm 16mm, 3 min, 2000
Director: Sonia Nelubina
A
hand-painted film about man's metamorphoses.
plus...
The
First Round Dance 3min, 16mm, 2001 by Masha Godovannaya
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