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The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate
,HO Contemporary Art Association
Supernova - Moscow/Sofia
House of Cinema

present

CINE FANTOM

Russian Alternative Cinema

May 17-20, 2003, House of Cinema
37 Ekzarh Yossif Str.

Programmes:

Parallel Cinema
Necrorealism
Experimental videos from Siberia, Moscow, and Saint Petersburg
Moscow Radical Cinema

Guests:
Gleb Aleinikov - director and producer (Kinoobedinenie CINE PHANTOM - Moscow)
Andrei Silvestrov - director (Kinoobedinenie CINE PHANTOM, Videodom - Moscow)
Oleg Mavromatti - artist, director (Moscow Radical Cinema)
Anastasiya Kovikina - cameraman (Kinoobedinenie CINE PHANTOM - Moscow)

Movies:
"Ema Tzuntz", "Sitting in the Cupboard", The Better Porno than Never Programme, "A Desire to Watch a Fassbinder Movie", "Tractoristi 2", "Subscribers", "Bruner's Trial", "Native Speech", "Ameriga", "The XO Game", "Somebody's Been Here", "A Mean Male Disease", "The Members of the CHAPAEV Society Are Speaking", "Filmhappy", "Shaitan", "Drafts", "Leopold Djuza", "An Ode", "Autumn Ball", Necrorealism Programme, "Daddy, Father Frost IS Dead!", "Bee-hives", "The Rats Are Leaving the Shop", 'The Green Elephant Calf", From Siberia with Love Programme, The Bluesoup Programme, The ZAIBI (For Anonimous and Free-of-charge Art) Group Programme, "Ivan the Idiot"

Directors:
Oleg Haibulin, Tatyana Detkina, Aleksander Dulerain, Sergei Koryagin, Igor Aleinikov, Gleb Aleinikov, Olga Stolpovskaya, Dmitrii Troitzki, Boris Yuhananov, Grigorii Dikert, Elena Kabankova, Andrei Silvestrov, Dmitrii Elyashev, Inna Kolossova, Maria Yuhananova, Mitya Fyodorov, Victor Alimpiyev, Marian Zhunin, Evgeniy Yufit, Sveta Baskova, Vyacheslav Mizin, Dimitrii Bulginin, Maksim Zonov etc.

The movies chosen for this programme were featured at the following international festivals: Moscow International Film Festival, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, also at film festivals in Rimini, Hamburg and Helsinki, the Russian Movie Festival in New York, Contemporary Russian Cinema and TV in Graz, Film Distributors Festival in Paris, CINE PHANTOM and Stick in Moscow, Non-official Moscow Festival, The Indiscipline Cinema Festival (Moscow), Deboshitfilm in Saint Petersburg, The Too - Amateur Cinema Festival (Moscow), "Dah" in Kiev, Dreamcatcher (Kiev), Cinema Festival in Kotbus (Sochi), Kanski Film Festival, SKK - Super Short Films (Novosibirsk), the Russian Cinema Sumposium in Pittsburgh etc.

The Russian Alternative Cinema Panorama features films that have been created from the Perestroika through the 1990s to nowadays. This is a period when with the development of the independent cinema with its parallel conceptual, philosophical and social ideas, simultaneously appeared video art and its specific genres such as video documentation of theatre shows and performances. As a result of this and with the development of the cheap and accessible digital technologies hybrid forms now in their apogee appeared.
These movies are unknown and probably much awaited by the Bulgarian audience. They are samples of intellectual cinema created as an opposition to the formal culture, financed by government or commercial structures.
During the 1980s these films were regarded as dangerous by the existing regime, and in the 1990s - ignored because of the fear from the common piety guarded for the high budget productions.
Parallel cinema, Necrorealism and Radical cinema are unique Russian trends in cinema, visual arts and theatre, creating conceptual and formal principles that are part of their strong characteristic face opposing and mocking the Western influence.
We hope that this multifaceted programme enclosing works created in a quite a long and full of contradictions period from the cultural and political Russian history and the whole post-communist world, will fill the gap in the film and art picture of the period. Through the movie camera we will see a different but surprisingly close to our sensitivity view. We hope that these movies would suit not only the nostalgic audience but the futuristic one as well.

For more information:
Red House Centre for Culture and Debate:
adonchev@redhouse-sofia.org; (+359 2) 988 81 88; (+359) 48 87 05 26 (Antoniy Donchev)
Supernova:
bori999@yah00.com; (+359 2) 77 84 00, (+359) 89 933 090 (Boryana Dragoeva)
House of Cinema: (+359 2) 980 78 38

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May 17 (Saturday) 2003, 7 p.m.
PARALLEL CINEMA
Fate, 1998, 15 min., dir. Andrei Silvestrov
Traktoristi 2, 1992, 75 min., dir. Igor Aleinikov, Gleb Aleinikov

May 18 (Sunday) 2003, 1 p.m.
PARALLEL CINEMA
Tractors, 1987, 10 min., dir. Igor Aleinikov, Gleb Aleinikov
Ameriga, 1990-1997, 55 min., dir. Igor Aleinikov, Gleb Aleinikov
Ema Tzuntz, 1998, 15 min., dir. Oleg Haiboulin
An Ode, 2002, 34 min., dir. Viktor Alimpiev, Mariyan Zhunin

May 18 (Sunday) 2003, 3.30 p.m.
PARALLEL CINEMA
Mean Male Disease, 1987, 6 min., dir. Igor Aleinikov, Gleb Aleinikov
The Members of the Chapaev Society Are Speaking, 1987, 10 min., dir. Igor Aleinikov, Gleb Aleinikov
Somebody's Been Here, 1989, 43 min., dir. Igor Aleinikov, Gleb Aleinikov
Four Objects, 1998, 10 min., dir. Alexander Dulerain, Yan Rauh
A Desire to Watch a Fassbinder Film, 1998, 22 min., Alexander Doulerain, Sergei Koryagin
Bruner's Trial, 1998, 11 min., dir. Olga Stolpovskaya
Subscribers, 2000, 11 min., dir. Olga Stolpovskaya
Native Speech, 2001, 10 min., dir. Olga Stolpovskaya

May 18 (Sunday) 2003, 6 p.m.
PARALLEL CINEMA
Simple Stories, 1998, 50 min., dir. Vladimir Levashov, Andrei Silvestrov
Filmhappy, 2001, 19 min., Grigoriy Dikkert, Lena Kabankova
Sitting in the Cupboard, 2001, 23 min., dir. Tatyana Detkina
Sheitan, 2002, 17 min., Andrei Silvestrov

May 18 (Sunday) 2003, 8.15 p.m.
NECROREALISM
Lumberjacks, 1984, 15 min., dir. Evgeniy Yufit
Hospital Attendants from Beyond, 1984, 16 min., dir. Evgeniy Yufit
Dreams, 1985, 16 min., dir. Evgeniy Kondratiev
Daddy, Father Frost Is Dead!, 1991, 81 min., dir. Evgeniy Yufit

May 19 (Monday) 2003, 5. p.m.
PARALLEL CINEMA
Bee-hives, 2001, 85 min., dir. The NOM Group

May 19 (Monday) 2003, 7 p.m.
THE BETTER PORNO THAN NEVER PROGRAMME
All Girls Are Stupid Bitches, 2001, 20 min., dir. Andrei Silvestrov, Pavel Labazov
All Men Are Fuckin' Pigs, 2001, 15 min., dir. Nadezhda Bakuradze
Liana Online, 2001, 21 min., Dir. Vladimir Dudchenko
MOSCOW RADICAL CINEMA
The Rats Are Leaving the Shop, 2001, 51 min, dir. Oleg Mavromatti

May 19 (Monday) 2003, 9 p.m.
MOSCOW RADICAL CINEMA
The Green Elephant Calf, 1999, 95 min., dir. Svetlana Baskova

May 20 (Tuesday) 2003, 11 a.m.
DISCUSSION at the Red House Centre for Culture and Debate,
15 Lyuben Karavelov Str.

May 20 (Tuesday) 2003, 5 p.m.
Traktoristi, 1939, 88 min., dir. Ivan Piryev

May 20 (Tuesday) 2003, 6.45 p.m.
EXPERIMENTAL VIDEOS FROM SIBERIA, MOSCOW AND ST. PETERSBURG
The Blue Soup Group Programme, 1996-2000, 30 min.
Programme of the ZAIBI (For Anonimous and Free-of-charge Art), 1998-2001, 30 min.
From Siberia with Love Programme, 2002-2003, 60 min.

May 20 (Tuesday) 2003, 9 p.m.
PARALLEL CINEMA
Ivan the Idiot, 2002, 81 min., dir. Alexander Doulerain, Sergei Koryagin

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