Premiere. Fausto

Date

Schedule

20:00–21:30

Place

Garage Auditorium

DESCRIPTION

The legend of Faust is mixed with Oaxacan myths in a meditation on the borders of reality and the limitations of a rational perspective on the world.

When Fernando and Alberto decide to expand their small seaside bar, they come across stories about a powerful witch, who once resided in their neighborhood. Locals bring up stories of magic, shapeshifting, and strange rituals. One day, the protagonists meet a Frenchman looking for shelter and willing to exchange it for his shadow—his only possession.  

A strange mix of fiction and documentary, Fausto is not so much an adaptation of the medieval German legend about a scientist who sold his soul to the devil (although the film has clearly been influenced by Goethe’s play, and Gertrude Stein’s opera libretto Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights), as a meditative discussion of the limitations of the Western worldview. Reason alone cannot explain the world we live in: something always slips away from rational analysis, as Andrea Bussmann shows in her study of the folklore in Oaxaco state, where European legends of the colonial age have mixed with Mexican mythologies, and nature has remained unchanged for hundreds of years.

  

Fausto
Andrea Bussmann
Canada, Mexico, 2018. 70 min. 18+

tickets

Standard: 400 RUB
Student: 300 RUB*

 Garage Members: 200 RUB.

BUY TICKETS

Concessions for pensioners, veterans, large families and visitors with disabilities (with one carer): 200 RUB**

To book members’ tickets, call +7 (499) 345-10-00 or email members@garagemca.org. Booked tickets must be paid for no later than 30 minutes before the screening.

Film will be shown in original language with Russian subtitles.
Screening accessible for the deaf and hard of hearing.

* For students of 18 to 25 years old with student ID
** Please bring proof of eligibility