CINE FANTOM
The 2nd Russian Film Festival is proud to announce that the legendary Moscow film club CINE FANTOM has agreed to take part in the Festival and present their special collection of short films, created by the daringly innovative Aleinikov brothers and their fellow video art activists - Boris Yuhananov's Theatre, the Theatre Collective, and others. The curators of CINE FANTOM's international programme are in London from 20 to 28 of September. They will be introducing the screening and conducting a Q&A with the audience.
about CINE FANTOM
The name CINE FANTOM came into existence in 1985 when it was first conceived as a 'samizdat' film journal, edited by Igor Aleinikov. From its very conception CINE FANTOM was closely linked with the Soviet underground movement 'parallel cinema', within which Gleb and Igor Aleinikov were also great contributors, activists and promoters. From the mid-90's CINE FANTOM was transformed into a film club which soon became a legendary phenomenon and continues to be well respected to this day. The mission of the club is not only to exhibit audiovisual creations but also to discuss each work in the presence of established film critics, scholars, artists, and directors. Thus CINE FANTOM has achieved the status of uniting cinematic organisation, bringing together independent thinkers, filmmakers, artists and writers.
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about the Aleinikov brothers
In the 1980‟s Igor Aleinikov and Gleb Aleinikov belonged to the school of Moscow conceptualists and took an active part in underground art activities. They worked in such genres as mailart, bookart, socart and homeart. The Aleinikov brothers can claim their place in cinema history as the founders of "parallel cinema", a movement of experimental underground film-making on narrow film, including such works as "Tractors" (1987), "I‟m Frigid, But it Doesn‟t Matter" (1987), "The Severe Illness of Men" (1987) and "Postpolitical Cinema" (1988). Theirs was an aesthetic and ideology absolutely incompatible with the values propounded by the Soviet cinematic canon. The Aleinikov brothers started working in the milieu of official cinema in the late 80‟s by shooting the short film "Someone Has Been Here" (1989) and a full-length film "Tractor Drivers 2" (1992). In March 1994 Igor Aleinikov was killed in a plane crash. A year later Gleb Aleinikov founded the CINE FANTOM film club.
SHORT FILMS BY ALEYNIKOV BROTHERS, COMBINED PROGRAMME
Directors: Igor Aleinikov, Gleb Aleinikov (Aleinikov Brothers)
Total running time: 65 min
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Boris and Gleb
10 min; USSR, 1988In a world of destruction where worlds no longer belong to one's voice, where letters express not what the lips have whispered and the lips read something different from what is written in the subtitles... In a world where a film only pretends to be a film, but, in fact, is a prayer for innocently killed Saint Boris and Saint Gleb.
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Metastases
Experimental video; 16 min; USSR, 1984If your eye seduces you, pull it out like TV-set plug from the socket! Thus their torturing and killing with a whip, sabre, and rubber bludgeon will not be projected on the retina of the TV screen. And if they are not killing, this means only one thing – they are already dead.
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