2004 Red Shift Program:
January 14, 2004
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2004 Red Shift Program
Day Two: January 15, 2004
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue at Second Street,
New York, New York
8:00 pm
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The Hotel
15 minutes, 2003
Directed by Dmitry Povolotsky & Mihalis Gripiotis
An experimental documentary of three filmmakers “invading” a
hotel. As the camera follows them, the stories of tenants and guests of
the hotel unfold. Reality and fiction are mixed in an attempt to portray
the lives of the tenants in the heavy, unwelcome, and haunting atmosphere
of narrow corridors. The hotel, which is located somewhere in Manhattan,
was used back in the 60’s as an asylum for the mentally ill immigrants,
some of them are still there.
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Born Russian/Cossaks
30 minutes, 2003
Directed by Maria Reshetnikova
Documentary series about descendants of White Russian Army officers, Cossacks,
Russian Orthodox priests, cadets and others who were forced to leave Russia
around 1921, because of their political and moral beliefs. Almost 6 million
Russians of every social strata and profession immigrated to Europe and
America in the first half of the XX century. Documentary excerpt from
Born Russian specially edited for the film festival time format introduces
audience to three of thirty unbelievable stories which have been filmed
in the United States since September 2002 as the first part of the series
which we plan to continue by working with and interviewing the Red Terror
survivors living today in Europe and Russia.
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Paris
7 minutes, 2003
Directed by Nataliya Lyakh
The Seine, the Notre-Dame, the Luxembourg Garden, the Triumph Arch. Paris,
filmed so many times, by so many people. This is a different film about
Paris where the rules of filming and editing are reinvented. Without special
effects the elevator of the Eiffel Tower becomes a gigantic insect and
the clouds over the Concorde Bridge move like flying saucers. Resembling
a Japanese print, the film leaves a delicate, unidentifiable trace of
color, smell and touch.
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The Girl, the Boy and the City
4 minutes, 2003
Directed by Alexandra Lerman and Darya Belova
The video captures the ambience of a white night in St.-Petersburg through
a text message conversation featuring two young people in love, their
friend, and a taxi driver. The film explores the communication created
through the popular use of the text message feature of cellular phones.
Here, Russian words, usually written in Cyrillic letters, need to be written
with Latin letters instead; the names of nightclubs and restaurants sound
strange, creating confusion. Video is split between three screens. Each
represents a separate voice: the girl, the boy, the city.
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How Are You?
4:10 minutes, 2000
Directed by Olga Kisseleva
In "How are You?" Olga Kisseleva asked this question of people
in different countries. She entered the received answers into a computer
and created hyperlinks between them. The answers came to form a single
text. A collective answer, which assumes a collective subject. But this
collective subject is created by the artist. She attempted, in other words,
to create a whole, a utopian unity out of fragments, the fragments of
individual minds, individual beings, pieces of TV news, memories, languages,
customs, pop culture memes, and so on. The resulting communication utopia
has a distinctly late twentieth form of hypertext. Maybe this is the only
kind of unity possible today, or at least the kind of unity which is true
to the mosaic nature of fragments it brings together? (Lev Manovich)
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Trampoline
4 minutes, 2003
Directed by Darya Zhuk
An intimate love story, a rollercoaster of moods and emotions, public
transportation and the secret nightlife in the city of Minsk. "Trampoline"
explores the issues of trust and fidelity in a long-distance relationship.
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F-Day
5:09 minutes, 2003
Directed by Irina Danilova
"F-Day" is a video documentation of one day, August 9, 2002,
set in New York City as a part of Irina Danilova's annual Alphabet Diet
Performance. "F-Day" is about eating French Fries at the Franklyn
Furnace with the artist TiFFany Ludwig and then eating Fish with the director
of the Franklyn Furnace Martha Wilson a Few hours before the opening of
her Feminist exhibition.
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Urban Earth
3 minutes, 2003
Directed by Aliona Yurtsevich
A stream of non-narrative imagery exploring themes of creation and decay,
the life force that permeates all objects, “natural and man-made”,
and the inherent beauty of these processes.
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The Prince is Back
59 minutes, 2000
Directed by Marina Goldovskaya
This is the story of one man’s uncompromising fight to achieve his
dream against all odds. This documentary chronicles Prince Eugene Meshersky’s
struggle to resurrect his life while restoring the rubble of his ancestor’s
castle to its former glory. In this tiny village outside Moscow, we live
with the Prince, his wife, and his three young children on dirt floors
and open windows as he digs a well for water, removes vagrants from his
property, replants his gardens, restores his castle one room at a time
and dreams about tomorrow.
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