Films by Artists Garage Screen program with Beat Film Festival

Date

26 MAY 20173 JUNE 2017

Place

Garage Screen summer cinema

DESCRIPTION

Garage and Beat Film Festival unveil Films by Artists program featuring films made by artists.

Films by Artists is a Garage Screen project with Beat Film Festival featuring four films at the boundary of cinema and video art made by video artists, anthropologists, and performance artists. Held in the new Garage Screen summer cinema, the program will be accompanied by artist talks with the films’ directors and experts.

The program launches on May 26 with the Russian premiere of Manifesto (2016) by German artist Julian Rosefeldt. In this film version of his multi-channel video installation, actress Cate Blanchett performs the most important manifestos of the twentieth century as a series of monologues in which she transforms into thirteen different people. The film is distributed by A-One Films and Russian World Vision, and will be released in Russia on June 8.

Next in line comes the documentary that made quite a splash, Liberation Day, chronicling the sensational concert of Slovenian art-rockers Laibach in Pyongyang—musicians from the western world exploring the limits of freedom in the totalitarian dictatorship of North Korea. The screening, supported by the Embassy of Kingdom of Norway in Russia, will be preceded by a talk between Beat Film Festival curator Yuri Saprykin, journalist Nina Nazarova who covered the concert for Afisha, the top lifestyle outlet, and Norwegian media artist Morten Traavik.

Italian video artist and director Yuri Ancarani will present The Challenge, a documentary luxury travelogue into the world of the extreme wealth of the Qatari “golden youth”—falconry, gold studded iPhones, and a cheetah in a Lamborghini—that’s just part of one weekend in the posh desert.

Before the screening, the director (his visit is supported by the Embassy of Italy in Russia) will meet with Italian curator Antonio Geusa.

Members of Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Laboratory (those behind the fascinating documentary Leviathan) use the most experimental cinema techniques in their latest title Somniloquies, directed by Verena Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor. The viewer is plunged into the dreams of “the world’s most prolific sleep talker,” New York songwriter Dion McGregor. The directors use audio recordings of McGregor’s dream talk as a soundtrack to accompany the distorted worlds of people’s dreams.

ABOUT THE BEAT FILM FESTIVAL

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.

Schedule

Manifesto

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.

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Date
Friday, May 26
Time
21:00–23:00
Place
Garage Screen summer cinema

Artist talk: Morten Traavik and Yury Saprykin's with the assistance of Nina Nazarova

Before the screening Liberation Day an artist talk will take place between Beat Film Festival curator Yuri Saprykin, journalist Nina Nazarova who covered the concert for Afisha, the top lifestyle outlet, and the co-director of the film, Norwegian media artist Morten Traavik.

REGISTRATION

Date
Saturday, May 27
Time
20:00–21:00
Place
Garage Screen summer cinema