USSR Art

USSR Art 1990

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The first art auction in Moscow conducted by Sotheby’s took place in the summer of 1988. It became a turning point in the history of contemporary Russian art, the first time that Soviet art collided head-on with the full Western market force. USSR Art uses this seminal event as a platform from which to explore the effect of glasnost on art in the Soviet Union.

1990

Simonetti Horror Project

Simonetti Horror Project 1990

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A staged performance of Claudio Simonetti performing his album "Simonetti Horror Project".

1990

St Mark's Gospel

St Mark's Gospel 1990

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Alec McCowen's award-winning solo performance of the St Mark Gospel.

1990

Dying Time

Dying Time 1990

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Horror film where a man returns to the town he was born in and things aren't what they seem.

1990

Wanda

Wanda 1990

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Wanda is a short story of feline and feminine desire. In this delightful piece composed of video animation and live-action footage in Super and Video 8 the narrator reflects on the unrestrained behavior of her cat in heat.

1990

Erosion

Erosion 1990

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The film constructs a strongly conventionalised and symbolic world out of the diary fragments of a man who underwent an alcohol detoxification treatment. The protagonist of this unusual family story, Petunia Joe, lives in a house with his mother and grandfather. One day, he suddenly turns adult. Out in LIFE, he takes his first steps in the Factory. Meaningless work is performed and barren relationships are formed among the rusted walls.

1990

The Last Stop

The Last Stop 1990

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A young man comes home to his Kazakh village after finishing up his stint in the Soviet Army. All that he finds are his old friends drinking, senselessly carousing, tumbling into one violent brawl after another.

1990

Potson-Potson

Potson-Potson 1990

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A woman asks God to give her a child, even a tiny one.

1990

Stone Lion

Stone Lion 1990

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Short directed by experimental artist Robert Darroll.

1990

The Origins of Scientific Cinematography

The Origins of Scientific Cinematography 1990

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THE ORIGINS OF SCIENTIFIC CINEMATOGRAPHY is a documentary film series directed by Virgilio Tosi. The films complement Tosi’s book Cinema Before Cinema, using archive film and original equipment to show how cinematography had its origins not in the music hall or the fairground, but in the laboratory, as scientists of the 19th and early 20th centuries attempted to find new ways of seeing and measuring the natural world.

1990

Ten Minutes Before the Flight of Icarus

Ten Minutes Before the Flight of Icarus 1990

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A manifesto for the post-Soviet generation of Lithuanian filmmakers who rejected straightforward declarativity and immersed themselves into the silent observation of reality. Arunas Matelis traces the beginnings of post-Soviet transformation not in the main squares of Vilnius but observes it in the daily life of the inhabitants of Užupis–a historical quarter of the old town of Vilnius. The film, awarded in the Oberhausen, Bornholm and Pärnu film festivals, was also screened as a feature in the Cannes Film Festival.

1990

The Real Charlotte

The Real Charlotte 1990

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When the man she's long loved is widowed, flinty, fortyish, but financially secure Charlotte sees her chance to end her spinsterhood at last - but then her impoverished young cousin Francie arrives.

1990