A New Season of Screenings at Garage Screen summer cinema supported by Farfetch
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In the year of the 10th anniversary celebration, Garage visitors will be invited to see the best of the classics, festival discoveries, and the boldest experimental films at Garage Screen Summer Cinema. This year the project is supported by Farfetch, the global technology platform for the fashion industry. Garage Screen is a part of Farfetch’s commitment to support bold and extraordinary projects in the worlds of fashion and art.
In the upcoming season (from May 4 to September 9), the program will be split into several sections, curated by film critic and International Film Festival Rotterdam programmer, Iskusstvo kino [Film Art] editor, and Garage Screen curator Evgeny Gusyatinskiy.
Friday’s First Features will present shorts and full-length debuts made early on in the careers of the most prominent filmmakers working today. Every Saturday in May, visitors will have a chance to see Russian premieres of the latest festival gems in the Premiers section. On Sundays, the program Sources & Influences will be reserved for classics that still influence today’s cinema and art, while Experiments, devoted to avant-garde and experimental cinema that is integral to contemporary art, will be launched later this year.
The opening film for this year’s season is Pity (2018), an absurdist comedy by Babis Makridis. Makridis co-wrote the paradoxical story of a contemporary man without a character with Efthymis Filippou—one of the pioneers of the Greek new wave, who has collaborated with Yorgos Lanthimos on Dogtooth, Alps, The Lobster, and The Killing of a Sacred Deer. Pity premiered at Sundance in January 2018 and was shown at International Film Festival Rotterdam a few days later.
Garage Members, Patrons, and Partners as well as Farfetch’s friends will be the first to see the film on May 4, while the screening on May 5 will be open to all visitors.
On May 6, visitors are invited to a special screening of Jacque Tati’s Playtime (1967), recently restored in 4K. Playtime, believed to be one of the greatest architectural films of all times, was shot in a specially constructed city (‘Tativille’), inspired by the modernist architecture, urbanism, and futurism of the 1960s. The screening is part of the program for the opening of Atom—a work originally made in 1967 by the leader of Soviet kinetic art Viacheslav Koleichuk—which will be reconstructed in Garage Square.
To celebrate the release of Isle of Dogs (2018), a new animation film by Wes Anderson, on May 10 the First Features section will open with a screening of Anderson’s debut film Bottle Rocket (1996)—an indie adventure comedy that Martin Scorsese called one of the best films of the 1990s.
A selection of animation films from Europe and Asia will be screened in the Premieres section. These include an independent Chinese neo-noir Have a Nice Day (2017) by Liu Jian, exposing the unknown side of contemporary China, which caused a stir at last year’s Berlinale, and Mutafukaz (2017)—a Franco-Japanese gangster sci-fi blockbuster by Shojiro Nishimi and Guillaume Renard. Set in post-apocalyptic Los Angeles, the film was an instant success at Annecy International Animation Film Festival—the world’s main platform for new animation. Another premiere in the section is Insect (Hmyz, 2018), the new work by Czech surrealist filmmaker Jan Švankmajer, with which he decided to finish his career. (The director’s solo exhibition Jan Švankmajer’s Kunstkammer was shown at Garage in 2013).
In May, Garage Screen will become a partner of the 4th Moscow Jewish Film Festival and in June present a program of documentaries with Beat Film Festival.
During the summer the program will be enhanced by the special Fashion Forward movie view cycle powered by Farfetch and The Blueprint, independent digital media about fashion, beauty, and modern culture. The screenings will include films with art and fashion backgrounds.
In 2018 Garage Museum of Contemporary Art is launching a regional Garage Screen Film Festival in collaboration with New Holland Island in Saint Petersburg, Smena Center of Contemporary Culture in Kazan, Armenia Art Foundation in Yerevan, and other key cultural institutions in Russia and CIS. The program will feature the best new films on art and experimental works by Russian and international filmmakers.
As usual, all films will be screened in the original language with Russian subtitles.
Tickets can be purchased online or at the information desk and Garage Members get a 50% discount on all events.
All screenings are accessible for deaf and hard of hearing visitors. Summer cinema is also wheelchair accessible.