Cine Phantom – The History of Parallel Cinema in Pictures and Films

Join Silvestrov for a discussion and screening as he briefly outlines the history of Parallel Cinema - from the first experiments of the 1980s, to the video art and films of the 1990s and 2000s, to the modern trends that are defining a new decade. The term Parallel Cinema, or Soviet Parallel Cinema was an underground film movement in the Soviet Union in the 1980s. The films made as part of the movement were noted for embracing amateur aesthetics and for deliberately refusing to conform to professional standards, often created and projected at home. It was an underground culture which was exploring sub-cultural non-public subjects such as critique of ideology, violence and homosexuality. The culminating point of this artistic period was to be the first Cine Fantom-Festival in Moscow in 1987.

Lecturer:

Andrei Silvestrov, general producer of the studio Cine Phantom Promo, organizer and program director of the Cine Phantom club, honorary president of the International Kansk Video Festival, author and director of three full-length films and over twenty short films and videos. He is also the author of video projections for the performances of the Bolshoi Theatre The Snow Maiden and Mazepa, and won the Kandinsky Prize Laureate for his film Volga-Volga.

Co-organizer: Cine Phantom