This screening includes Olga Stolpovskaya’s early experimental films Bruner’s Trial, Heavens, Subscribers.
In protest against the politics of the contemporary art market, artist Alexander Brener used a painting by Kazimir Malevich as a medium for his own statement. In January 1997, he spray-painted a green dollar sign on White Suprematist Cross (1920–1921) at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Bruner’s Trial is a 1998 avant-garde mockumentary dramatizing Brener’s action and the trial that followed.
Heavens is a collective portrait of twelve Russian artists, filmmakers, and poets, including German Vinogradov, Gosha Ostretsov and Gleb Oleinikov. The protagonists take turns answering the same philosophical question about the sky.
Subscribers is a detective short about the consequences of a call on a random number.
Olga Stolpovskaya (b. 1969, Moscow) is a director, producer, writer, curator of film festivals, and participant in the Parallel Cinema movement. In 1996–1997 she was editor-in-chief of the magazine Cine Phantom and the eponymous film club.
Bruner’s Trial
Olga Stolpovskaya
Russia, 1998. 11 min.
Heaven
Olga Stolpovskaya and Dmitry Troitsky
Russia, 1999. 22 min.
Subscribers
Olga Stolpovskaya and Victor Alimpiev
Russia, 2000. 12 min.