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Digital Stages

Digital Stages, planned for April 2011, is a new festival which will showcase performances across disciplines (dance, theatre, performance and visual art) which incorporate digital media and offer discussion panels, practical workshops and other events. The goal of Digital Stages is to strengthen the linkages between the theory and practice of the integration of digital technology and live art. Bringing together a number of artists from the UK, Russia, Europe, Canada and elsewhere, Digital Stages will trace the history of the combining of digital media and live art while also placing a spotlight on young artists for whom the integration of technology is perhaps more of a given, but have much to say about where it will go.

‘Technically Perfect’
GLAZ is co-producing the new feature film by Ron Peck. ‘Technically Perfect’ is a psychological thriller/road movie partly set in Russia and in Ukraine. Imbued with art-house aesthetics, it depicts a story of a former US surveillance agent on the run, who rediscovers his identity by travelling across Russia.

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Ron Peck screening in Moscow

Special screening of Ron Peck’s cult work at CINE FANTOM film club in Moscow
April 2010

GLAZ organised a number of events in Moscow to introduce Ron Peck, a master of independent British cinema, through the première screenings of his classic and recent works.
In partnership with CineFantom and ArtKino film clubs, who hosted the screenings of NIGHTHAWKS, 1978 (CineFantom: 14 April, 20.00; Pioneer Cinema, Kutuzovksy pr.21) and CROSS-CHANNEL, 2009 (ArtKino: 15 April, 18.00; Master Class film club, Mayakovsky Museum, Lubyanskii pr.3/6)

Dream Flights:

A tribute to a creative alliance of Oleg Yankovsky and Roman Balayan
5, 9, 10 March 2010

In association with the Sergei Paradjanov Festival London/Bristol 2010

http://www.paradjanov-festival.co.uk

A tribute to the creative alliance of a remarkable Russian actor, Oleg Yankovsky, and a world renowned filmmaker, Roman Balayan, will take place at Ciné Lumière and Pushkin House. This celebration of the artistic collaboration, which spanned over some twenty years, will present the London audiences with a chance to see the films of Roman Balayan for the first time in the UK.

Pushkin House

Guard me, my Talisman / 5 March 2010 / 7.30 pm

Ciné Lumière

Dream Flights / 9 March/ 6 .15 pm

Special screening: Birds of Paradise / 9 March / 8.30 pm

The Spy / 10 March / 3 pm

Sergei Paradjanov Festival London Bristol 2010
22 February – 9 May

The Sergei Paradjanov Festival in London and Bristol is the first major celebration of the legendary artist and filmmaker whose talent transcends religious and political boarders, drawing on the cultural traditions of Armenia, Georgia, Ukraine and Russia.

A winner of British Academy Award, Paradjanov was a constant target of Soviet authorities; deprived of the opportunity to make films for fifteen years, five of which were spent in hard labour camps, he found the most vibrant means of expressing his talent through drawings, collages and writing. Paradjanov was ahead of his time, for his works posses the elements and stylistics which came to constitute contemporary arts – performance, video art and moving image and mixed media installations.

The Festival aims to present the life and works of Sergei Paradjanov to UK audiences through a series of diverse events that include: a film season; a moving image installation; a symposium and a workshop at the BFI Southbank; a photographic exhibition at the National Theatre; a series of talks at Pushkin House; a concert at St. Yeghiche Armenian Church; a screening at Cine Lumiere; a film retrospective at Arnolfini (Bristol); and a photographic exhibition at The Bristol Gallery.

For more information please visit: www.paradjanov-festival.co.uk

Severe Illnesses Experimental Cures

TATE MODERN: Sunday 8 November 2009

Observations of day-to-day rituals, official events and private perils open up views into the closed world of totalitarian systems in Eastern Europe during the Cold War. Violence and punk music break the monotony; irony and experimentation help to bear it. Including films by Igor & Gleb Alejnikow, Gerd Conradt, Jewgeni Jufit, Ramona Köppel-Welsh, Józef Robakowski, János Vető, and Thomas Werner, the programme captures the stifling atmosphere of late Communism, but also the some instances of freedom and change.Programme duration is 87 min.

Supported by Béla Balázs Studio Archive, Cine Fantom, Deutsche Kinemathek, German Federal Cultural Foundation, GLAZ, Goethe-Institut, Hungarian Cultural Centre and Polish Cultural Institute
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/film/19703.htm

Behind the Wall
Film season dedicated to the Fall of the Berlin Wall

The Berlin Wall came down in the evening of 9 November 1989, and its repercussions have been felt within Britain and throughout Europe ever since. Twenty years on, Barbican Film presents a season of films over two weekends.

The first looks at the significance of the Wall for Berlin itself. The second explores the impact of the Wall in Eastern Europe, with pre-1989 films focusing people living under Communism in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania, USSR, Bulgaria, Poland and Germany itself.

14 November 2009
Screening of ,Little Vera, USSR 1988 Dir. Vassily Pichul

http://www.barbican.org.uk/film/series.asp?ID=775

Special screening of VASSA

GLAZ supported KIINO KINO in hosting a special screening of VASSA by one of the most acknowledged Russian filmmakers, Gleb Panfilov, at Cine Lumiere. This London screening celebrated Gleb Panfilov’s anniversary as the director turned 75 on the 21st of May.

Gleb Panfilov’s personal official website was launched the same day. The website developed by the film company VERA and supported by Gleb Panfilov will reveal the most authentic and full information about the life and work of this remarkable director.

www.glebpanfilov.ru