Screening: Manifesto

DESCRIPTION

Manifesto, a documentary by the German director Julian Rosenfeldt is a smart collage comprising thirteen scenes, all performed by Cate Blanchett. In each of the episodes, she reads texts of the twentieth century’s key art manifestos bearing different guises: a school teacher, a choreographer, a homeless person, or a news presenter.

Manifesto is a feature length film version of Julian Rosenfeldt’s multichannel video installation of the same name, where he brings together somewhat contradictory things—actor’s improvisation with written script, and an Academy Award winner with the works of avant-garde artists.

An exhibition opening and a funeral, a family dinner and a junkyard, a school class and a punk gig become locations for citing paradigmatic texts by Claes Oldenburg, Yvonne Rainer, Kazimir Malevich, André Breton, Sol LeWitt, Jim Jarmusch, Lars von Trier, and other renowned artists, architects, dancers, and cinematographers who have expressed their vision of time, art and the world around in the genre of manifesto. The new conditions of reading these texts reveal the performative and political potential of this literary form, and raise questions regarding the changes that have happened in relations between politics, art, and life since they were written.

The world premiere of the Manifesto movie took place at the Sundance Festival in January 2017. In Russia, the film is shown for the first time, as part of Garage Museum of Contemporary Art and Beat Film Festival’s joint program Films by Artists. On June 8, A-One and Russian World Vision distribution companies will release the film in Russian cinemas.

Manifesto

Director Julian Rosenfeldt

Australia, Germany, 2015. 95 minutes.
16+

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BEAT FILM FESTIVAL  is an international documentary film festival with a focus on modern culture that takes place in Moscow in late May – early June. It is one of the largest documentary filmfestivals in Russia, with an audience of 20,000 attendees in Moscow and a regional showcase in 15 cities across Russia in the Fall. The festival’s program is a vibrant mix of film screenings and special events, dj-sets and live concerts, talks and round tables with visionaries in film, music and visual arts, social sciences and technology.

tickets

Standard adult—400 RUB

Concessions for visitors with disabilities—200 RUB*.
*Ticket for one carer—200 RUB.

The film will be screened in English with Russian subtitles.
The event is accessible to deaf and hard of hearing visitors.

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