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Ilona Lebedeva
Art historian, curator

Robert Irwin: A Desert of Pure Feeling (2022)

documentary, biography, art

4 December, Wednesday

19:30 Baltika

Language: English, Russian voice-over

Sold out

24 November, Sunday

18:00 Contemporary Art Museum Garage

Language: English, russian subtitles

29 November, Friday

19:30 Multimedia Art Museum Cinema (MAMM)

Language: English, russian subtitles

Lifeline: Clyfford Still (2019)

documentary, biography, art

5 December, Thursday

19:00 New Tretyakov Gallery (Novaya Tretyakovka)

Language: English, russian subtitles

Tickets

8 December, Sunday

15:15 Moskino Salyut

Language: English, Russian voice-over

Tickets

18 December, Wednesday

19:30 Baltika

Language: English, Russian voice-over

Tickets

25 December, Wednesday

19:30 Formula Kino CDM

Language: English, Russian voice-over

Tickets

Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible (2020)

documentary, biography, history, art

8 December, Sunday

15:00 CINEMA PARK Schelkovsky

Language: English, Russian voice-over

Tickets

14 December, Saturday

15:00 Cinema Park Metropolis

Language: English, Russian voice-over

Tickets

23 October, Wednesday

19:30 Formula Kino CDM

Language: English, Russian voice-over

9 November, Saturday

18:00 Tretyakov Gallery. Engineering Building

Language: English, russian subtitles

12 November, Tuesday

19:30 Formula Kino na Kutuzovskom

Language: English, russian subtitles

15 November, Friday

19:30 Multimedia Art Museum Cinema (MAMM)

Language: English, russian subtitles

Jamie Wyeth and the Unflinching Eye (2024)

documentary, biography, art

11 December, Wednesday

19:30 Formula Kino CDM

Language: English, Russian voice-over translation

Tickets

14 December, Saturday

18:00 Pioneer Cinema

Language: English, Russian voice-over translation

Tickets

28 December, Saturday

19:30 Cinema Park Metropolis

Language: English, Russian voice-over translation

Tickets

30 November, Saturday

17:00 Tretyakov Gallery. Engineering Building

Language: English, russian subtitles

3 December, Tuesday

20:00 Illuzion Cinema

Language: English, russian subtitles

Wyeth (2018)

documentary, biography, art

14 December, Saturday

14:30 Philharmonic 2 Concert Hall

Language: English, Russian voice-over translation

Tickets

16 December, Monday

19:30 KARO 7 Atrium

Language: English, Russian voice-over translation

Tickets

16 November, Saturday

18:00 Tretyakov Gallery. Engineering Building

Language: English, russian subtitles

Give Me Pity! (2022)

music, thriller, comedy

An incredible stand-up musical with Sophie von Haselberg, the daughter of legendary actress and singer Bette Midler

24 January, Wednesday

19:30 Contemporary Art Museum Garage

Language: English, russian subtitles

4 February, Sunday

15:00 Contemporary Art Museum Garage

Language: English, russian subtitles

The Cathedral (2021)

drama

An extensive family story in striking pictures

25 January, Thursday

19:30 Contemporary Art Museum Garage

Language: English, Italian, russian subtitles

3 February, Saturday

18:00 Contemporary Art Museum Garage

Language: English, Italian, russian subtitles

Residency (2023)

documentary, horror

A documentary about an artistic community that features shocking surprises

26 January, Friday

19:30 Contemporary Art Museum Garage

Language: English, russian subtitles

5 February, Monday

20:00 Contemporary Art Museum Garage

Language: English, russian subtitles

Maɬni: Towards the Ocean, Towards the Shore (2020)

documentary

A documentary journey accompanied by the music of the waves, the music of the wind, and the stories of Chinookan people

27 January, Saturday

18:00 Contemporary Art Museum Garage

Language: English, North American Indian, russian subtitles

New Strains (2023)

comedy, romance, sci-fi

A radically intimate romcom set during a recent pandemic lockdown but with a retro, twentieth-century look

28 January, Sunday

18:00 Contemporary Art Museum Garage

Language: English, russian subtitles

Landscape Suicide (1986)

crime, drama

29 March, Friday

19:30 Contemporary Art Museum Garage

Language: English, russian subtitles

The history of the American avant-garde cinema of the 20th century: from the film "Manhatta" to structural cinema

lecture

30 March, Saturday

16:00 Contemporary Art Museum Garage

Language: russian subtitles

THE UNITED STATES of AMERICA (2021)

documentary

30 March, Saturday

18:30 Contemporary Art Museum Garage

Language: no dialogue, russian subtitles

2 October, Wednesday

19:30 Tretyakov Gallery. Engineering Building

Language: no dialogue, russian subtitles

READERS (2017)

documentary

31 March, Sunday

18:00 Contemporary Art Museum Garage

Language: no dialogue, russian subtitles

25 August, Sunday

15:00 Peredelkino Art Center

Language: no dialogue, russian subtitles

*в цену билета входит просмотр фильма Дж. Беннинга «ЧИТАТЕЛИ» и посещение других мероприятий фестиваля ДУШНО. Ах да, и компот!)

natural history (2014)

documentary

1 April, Monday

19:30 Contemporary Art Museum Garage

Language: English, russian subtitles

Twenty Cigarettes (2011)

documentary

5 April, Friday

19:30 Contemporary Art Museum Garage

Language: English, russian subtitles

4 October, Friday

19:30 Tretyakov Gallery. Engineering Building

Language: English, russian subtitles

Ruhr (2009)

documentary

6 April, Saturday

18:00 Contemporary Art Museum Garage

Language: no dialogue, russian subtitles

ALLENSWORTH (2022)

documentary

7 April, Sunday

18:00 Contemporary Art Museum Garage

Language: English, russian subtitles

21 October, Monday

19:00 MARCH Architecture School

Language: English, russian subtitles

Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible. Special screening in the GUM Cinema Hall with guest-night at the GUM-RED-LINE gallery

Special screening + author's tour of the exhibition "Qualia" with artist Sergei Shutov and curator Mikhail Sidlin + Presentation of the AMFEST ART&ARTISTS festival program

15 October, Tuesday

19:00 GUM Cinema Hall

Language: russian subtitles

Начало программы в 19:00 в галерее ГУМ-RED-LINE
Показ фильма в 20:45 в Кинозале ГУМ

Out of the Picture (2024)

documentary, art

25 October, Friday

19:30 Contemporary Art Museum Garage

Language: English, russian subtitles

Премьера в рамках The Art Film Festival

27 October, Sunday

17:00 Centre Zotov

Language: English, russian subtitles

Премьера в рамках The Art Film Festival

27 October, Sunday

17:01 Centre Zotov

Language: English, russian subtitles

Премьера в рамках The Art Film Festival

2 December, Monday

19:30 KARO 7 Atrium

Language: English, Russian voice-over translation

Exposing Muybridge (2021)

documentary, biography, history, art

19 November, Tuesday

19:00 Multimedia Art Museum Cinema (MAMM)

Language: English, russian subtitles

Eva Hesse (2016)

documentary, biography, art

26 November, Tuesday

19:30 Multimedia Art Museum Cinema (MAMM)

Language: English, russian subtitles

Hal (2018)

documentary, biography

1 December, Sunday

18:00 Contemporary Art Museum Garage

Language: English, russian subtitles

Bill Viola: The Road to St Paul's (2018)

documentary, biography, art

Available online
Watch for €3

Mark Rothko - La peinture vous regarde (2023)

documentary, biography, art

Available online
Watch for €3

Whaam! Blam! Roy Lichtenstein and the Art of Appropriation (2022)

documentary, biography, art

An artist who created pop art together with Andy Warhol, or a great plagiarist?

AMFEST

We are introducing the new film program AMFEST ART&ARTISTS – documentaries about artists who have changed the cultural landscape over the past 150 years. Film screenings start in mid-October and are be held in more than 40 cities in Russia. These are films about star creators – and about people who have pushed the boundaries of the familiar. Among the heroes of the project are the Dadaist Marcel Duchamp, whose idea of ​​the ready-made took over the world, and Roy Lichtenstein with his comic paintings. All the films are dedicated to visionaries who defined the art vectors of the future. Without the innovative photographs of galloping horses taken in the 1870s by Edward Muybridge, there would be no cinema (Gary Oldman will talk about this – as a collector of these unique photographs). The artistic experiments of Eva Hesse carried out in the 1960s – installations and sculptures from “garbage” materials – are hyper-relevant today. A special link in the program is two films about the creative dynasty of the Wyeths: Andrew, the author of the masterpiece "Christina's World" from the MoMA collection in New York, and his son Jamie, the portraitist of Kennedy and Nureyev. There is also a film in the program that poses a pressing question: will the profession of art critic survive or it'is "Out of the Picture"?..



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BENNING RETROSPECTIVE: March 29 - April 7

For the first time in Russia, a retrospective of a leading American experimental film director.

Who is James Benning? A documentary maker? Certainly. All of the seventy plus films he has directed (around a third of them are features) are technically documentaries, notwithstanding the variety of methods he used. Even when Benning invites actors to play real people (Landscape Suicide) and even when he casts a star like Willem Defoe (O Panama, co-created with Burt Barr).

Is he an artist? There is no question about that. All of Benning’s works belong to contemporary art as much as they do to cinema. Museum spaces are a natural environment for his films. He has also been creating installations since the late 1970s.

Is he a minimalist and a structuralist? Without a doubt. Benning has never made narrative films. They are often composed of long shots, landscape studies, and static observation without a storyline. Building on the experiments of the 1960s with avant-garde structuralist cinema, they invent a different film language.   

Is he a philosopher? Of course. Benning’s visual practice is rooted in the works of Henry David Thoreau. His art is a multi-volume epic reflecting upon the connections between history and nature, artificial and natural landscapes, the personal and the eternal.  

A documentary maker, an avant-garde artist, and a philosopher, he is also a cult figure in independent film, an educator, and a poet. All these descriptions are accurate and none of them is sufficient individually to describe a creative of Benning’s stature.

This program at Amfest is the first retrospective of James Benning’s films in Russia. It covers, as far as is possible, various decades in his career (some of the earlier works shot on 16 mm film, which Benning used until Ruhr, he chooses not to show in cinemas). It is not huge, but to cover Benning’s entire oeuvre would be an impossible task. Even the seven selected films require concentration on the part of the viewer, but they promise great spiritual rewards.   


 
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Art association CoolConnections and Garage Screen present AMFEST, a program of film screenings: January 24 - February 4
 
This year AMFEST is focusing on independent, experimental works and new names. Amanda Kramer, Winnie Cheung, and the duet of Artemis Shaw and Prashanth Kamalakanthan have not previously featured on Russian screens and are here now thanks to the renewed AMFEST.Their films radically transform familiar genres: New Strains reinvents the romcom, Give Me Pity! is a mutation of a TV comedy special, and Residency turns the documentary chronicle inside out.
 
Other participants include Ricky D’Ambrose, author of the grandiose metamodernist film-novel The Cathedral, which received the silver medal at Sergei Solovyov’s Spirit of Fire International Debut Film Festival in Khanty-Mansiysk, and Sky Hopinka with Małni. 

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