Garage Screen
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Garage Screen is a program of Garage Museum of Contemporary Art that explores film as an art form and as a research and public practice. This curatorial selection features special programs and films currently on release.
Garage Screen introduces audiences to features, documentaries, animated and experimental films from the programs of leading international and Russian film festivals, important works from the past, and films by independent filmmakers and artists. These works show the variety of forms and means of filmmaking and the broad range of topics and approaches in cinema.
In its own programs, Garage Screen approaches films from a researcher’s point of view, exploring them as experiences within historical, aesthetic, and cultural contexts. Film screenings from these programs and special sections are accompanied by public talks and discussions.
Garage Screen reflects the key focus areas of the Museum’s work and interacts with its other programs. For example, Garage publishing program includes the series Garage Screen, focused on forms and types of film language and the key people and challenges in twenty-first-century cinema.
As well as screenings, Garage Screen organizes film research labs and distributes films related to contemporary art.
Garage Screen films are shown in the Museum’s Auditorium.
The program is curated by Alisa Nasrtdinova, film historian and archivist and contributor to Iskusstvo kino and Séance.
Schedule
List of events
Garage Screen Film Festival
The annual festival organized within Garage’s film program and held in Russian cities and CIS countries acquaints audiences with the best recent pictures that haven’t been widely screened in theaters. Launched in 2018 to celebrate Garage’s tenth anniversary, the festival has since become an integral part of the Museum’s all-round collaboration with some leading regional and foreign cultural institutions. Over its existence, the program’s focus has shifted from films on art and contemporary culture to the screenings of festival cinema premiered in the previous season.Film Distribution
The Garage Screen team has been distributing films since 2019. Through its distribution activity Garage Screen reflects on the newest cinema and the history of film in a dialogue with contemporary art and culture. The Garage Screen program concentrates on “cross-over” pictures that play a significant role within the art process happening here-and-now. The debut production released by Garage was Anton Zhelnov’s documentary Poor Folk. Kabakovs which portrays the life and practice of Ilya and Emilia Kabakov—the classics of Russian contemporary art.
