Film screening "And Still I Believe", 1972 (Part One)

Date

Schedule

19:00

Place

Garage Auditorium

DESCRIPTION

The Garage Field Research project If Our Soup Can Could Speak... Mikhail Lifshitz and the Soviet Sixties continues with the screening and discussion of a documentary film by Mikhail Romm on the fate of the 20th century, introduced and moderated by Dmitry Gutov.

In one of his notes, Mikhail Lifshitz wrote that a reader of the future unfamiliar with the intellectual ideas of the epoch and the circumstances of the time stands a good chance of misunderstanding the words of the past. In the project If Our Soup Can Could Speak... Mikhail Lifshitz and the Soviet Sixties, the authors of the project turn to half-forgotten phenomena connected to 1968, the year Lifshitz’s book The Crisis of Ugliness was published.

As an introduction to this historical context, critic and art historian Dmitry Gutov presents the first part of the documentary And Still I Believe (1972), edited by Mikhail Romm. This unfinished film immerses the viewer in the intellectual atmosphere of the 1960s, when attitudes to the project of humanity’s emancipation began to change drastically. It was against this backdrop that Lifshitz’s book appeared.

Romm is a crucial figure for understanding the phenomenon of the Soviet sixties. His film Nine Days in One Year (1962) pioneered—and in many ways defined—the aesthetics of film in that decade. Ordinary Fascism (1965) turned out to be at the epicenter of debate on the nature of totalitarianism. In the last years of his life, he was working on the documentary The World Today. Mikhail Romm died in 1971, and his younger colleagues completed the film, later known as And Still I Believe. Its second part was directed by Elem Klimov and Marlen Khutsiev, and is not included in our screening.

The screening is followed by a discussion with the audience on the central problems of the epoch, and on the nuances in Lifshitz’s thinking that coincide with the questions posed by Romm.

HOW TO TAKE PART

Entrance is free, but seats are limited. Please arrive early.

Priority booking for GARAGE cardholders. Please send requests to members@garagemca.org