BERLIN TO MOSCOW – WORLD WITHOUT FRONTIERS
1996

>To Moscow – World Without Frontiers
Moscow, 1996
The international festival of new film and video
The Programme of Russian videoart (1992-1995)
"POP-CULTURE" Director: Boris Yukhananov. 26 minutes, Betacam, 1991
An absurdistic video show based on actions and performance of Moscow avantgarde artists, made in genre of TV-program.
"MORAL CODE OF COMMUNISM BUILDERS" Director: Sergei Savoushkin. 7 minutes, Betacam, 1991
Reconstruction of the spirit of the official ideology during the first decades of Soviet power in our country. Using authentic material щ placards, music, texts, chronicles of those years, the authors reproduce the image of proletarian culture which credited its own principles regulating all the spheres of life including the intimate one, i.e. communist moral commandments.
"TRACES ON THE PODIUM" Director: Konstantin Gadaev. 4 minutes, Betacam, 1992
How to express unexpressable, inarticulable, transient, appearing here right now and immediately disappearing in eternity? This video is based on the action that took place at Moscow Gallery "Regina", with participation of Saira Blansh Theatre. /No text/
"LEOPARDS BURST INTO THE TEMPLE OR BLINDFOLD INNER MONOLOGUE" Director: Sergey Savoushkin. 6 minutes, Betacam, 1992
This video was produced basing upon the exhibition of Anatoly Osmolovsky "Leopards Burst into the Temple" being the part of the art festival "Animalistic Projects". This video has been demonstrated at the international videofestival Deutscher videokunstpreis, Baden-Baden, and was among the best 50 videos of the year. /SUBTITLE TRANSLATION, needs to be read in the video hall during the presentation/.
"LARE FASHIONS" Directors: Maxim Vasilenko, Sergey Savoushkin, Dmitry Zinger. 7 minutes, Betacam, 1992
This video is divided into several mini-clips. The idea of these mini-clips originates from series of costumes "LARE" that are united by the common concept "women's love". Music by "Microkhirurgia" (micro surgery). /No text/.
"DANCE AND VIDEO" Director: Alexei Isaev. 8 minutes, Betacam, Hi-8, 1994
The basis of this work is the idea of synthesis of theatre, dance, video and computer technology. The film shows the result of experience of creative collaboration with the group of dancers "Saira Blansh" in the project of one of the first international "underground" festivals of experimental videos and computer animation (1993). The author of this video was one of the organisers of this festival. /No text/.
"GOD IS WITH US" Author and director: Andrey Velikanov. 10 minutes. VHS. 1994
A video montage of several recordings of Television news, feature films and documentaries, author's shots, technical crap etc. This compilation of different materials is united by the romantic and sometimes kitchy music of Leo Reizman's orchestra. The video consists of three parts щ allegro, andante and allegro con motto that parody the classical form of the music work, though such an analogy basically doesn't fit to the film pictures where scandalous political heads appear щ again and again. The video's idea is based on the thesis that in the present world 'true' reality loses its meaning, furthermore it becomes only another interpretation of itself and identical to other.
Interpretations, conceptions, shapes, etc. The title can be understood as a coincidental phrase that shortly appears at a sequence: during a demonstration in Moscow orthodox faithfuls carry a placard with these words written on it. On the other side, this sentence goes back to the thesis of French philosophy of the Enlightment like "God" is dead" or to Dostojewski's "Everything is alowed" that characterize so well the tormenting of aesthetical and ethical search of the Culture and especially of our days. The author is trying to reflect in clip manner the inner life of modern Russian man.
"KAKISTOCRACY" Author and director: Gia Rigvava. 3 minutes, Betacam, 1994
A word forgotten long time ago, "Kakistocracy", means government by the worst citizens in the state. /Subtitle translation/.
"BATS" Director: Tatiana Detkina. 7 minutes, Hi-8, 1995
This work is author's first experiment of combining video with various kinds of digital animation. The idea of the plot, a forced transformation of a bat into a toy, arose under influence of author's communication with biologists. This film has several prizes: "The Third Reality", Petersburg first prize), "The Fifth World Video Festival" Bruxelles (catalog). /No text/.
"PSYCHOPATHY OF MOSAIC CIRCLE" Director: Vadim Koshkin. 8 minutes, Betacam, 1994
"When I died there was nobody who could disprove it". /No text/.
"PUZZLE" Director: Vadim Koshkin. 6 minutes, Betacam, 1995
"Being born we possess hermetic symmetry of basic concepts. The further cognition multiplies chaos". /No text/.
"Psychopathy of Mosaic Circle" and "Puzzle" are diptych on death, birth and initiation of objective memory of infants 1.5-2.5 years old.

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