THE RUSSIANS ARE HERE ! Organized by the National Center for Contemporary Art, Winzavod Contemporary Art Center Moscow, IFAC-Arts and Perpetual Art Machine Scope Cinema Program Day 2 - Friday, March 6, 2009 Lincoln Center Damrosch Park 62nd Street and Amsterdam (10th Avenue)

Veronika Rudyeva-Ryazantseva, The Russian Unconscious, 2008, 1:12 Minutes      Courtesy of the artist and National Center for Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg Branch

Program 1 12pm­-2pm Walking a Fine Line: Parables of the Sublime and the Subversive in Russian Video Art Curated by Ksenia Fedorova and Alisa Prudnikova The program showcases recent Russian video art which reflects complex and controversial attitudes that attempt to navigate the sublime, while at the same time negotiating the positive and negative effects of global capitalism and the Western artworld. The artists are pursuing various strategies, ranging from mystification to irony and radical activism, and invite the viewer to draw their own conclusions. Artists include: Leonid Tishkov, Vladimir Logutov, Yury Vasiliev, Dmitry Bulnygin, ESCAPE Program, PG Group, Georgy Ostretsov, The Factory of Found Clothes, Blue Noses, Blue Soup, Vladlena Gromova, Alexey Buldakov, Veronika Rudyeva-Ryazantseva, Provmyza Group, Victor Alimpiev, Alexandra Mitlyanskaya, and Bombily Ar Group Leonid Tishkov, (with Sergey Tishkov) “Farewell to the Christmas Tree”, 2001, 15:00 Vladimir Logutov, “Episode”, 2005, 2:12 Yury Vasiliev, “Russian Red”, 2001, 2:25 Dmitry Bulnygin, “To Moscow”, 2006, 12:00 ESCAPE Program (Valery Ayzenberg, Anton Litvin, Liza Morozova), “Triangle”, 2007, 3:35 Provmyza Group, “Fuge”, 2007, 19:05 PG Group, “Song”, 2007, 2:00 Georgy Ostretsov, Salon Beauté, 2007, 2:37 The Factory of Found Clothes, “Triumph of Fragility”, 2002, 5:00 The Bombily Art Group, “Auto-Race of Those Who Disagree”, 2007, 4:04 Alexey Buldakov, “Mute”, 2008,  5:42 Victor Davydov, “Americanizer”, 2000, 0:50 Vladlena Gromova, “Pantheon”, 2008, 4:13 Veronika Rudyeva-Ryazantseva, “The Russian Unconscious”, 2008, 1:12 Victor Alimpiev, “Whose Exhalation is This?”, 2007, 15:07 Blue Noses Group, “Naked Truth”, 2008, 3:45 Alexandra Mitlyanskaya, “Operation”, 2006, 2:25 Program Time: 110 minutes www.uralncca.ru

Alexander Doulerain and Jamey Bradsharow, Offshore Reserves, 2004, 15:30min      Courtesy of the artist and Cine Fantom, Moscow

Program 2 2pm­-3pm Retrospective of Russian experimental Cinema Curatorial team: Andrey Silvestrov (CineFamtom), Anya Seizova and Christina Steinbrecher (Winzavod) CINE FANTOM and Winzavod present a retrospective of Russian experimental (Parallel) Cinema 1980s - present. CINE FANTOM is a Moscow based film club established in 1995. Artists include: Vera Wolf, Aleinikov Brothers, Andrey Golovin, Larisa Bocharova, Alexander Doulerain, Jamey Bradsharow, Olga Stolpovskaya and Shota Gamisonia Vera Wolf, Yufit Yevgeni, Order Life, 4min, 1984 Aleinikov Brothers - Tractors, 13min, 1987 /90 Andrey Golovin - Tsiolkovsky (RUS/ Engl. subtitles), 4:30min, 2004 Larisa Bocharova - Tomorrow is Birthday (RUS / Engl. subtitles), 12:42min, 2001 Alexander Doulerain, Jamey Bradsharow- Offshore Reserves, 15:30min, 2004 Olga Stolpovskaya - Bruner's Trial, 11min, 1998 Shota Gamisonia - Field, clowns, apple, 13min, 2008   Program Time: 73 minutes www.cinefantom.ru www.winzavod.com

Julia Milner, Universe, 2008, 10:00 min      courtesy of the artist and the Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow

Program 3 3pm­-4pm A Stranger in a Strange Land Curated by Lee Wells In a quest to better understand the rapidly changing state of 21st century Russian, Wells presents a cross-section of video by artists that he developed a personal connection with before and during his NCCA residency during the fall of 2008. Artists include: AES+F Group, Yuliya Lanina, Den Marino, Kirill Preobrazhenskiy, Masha Sha, Julia Milner, Where the Dogs Run Group and Zur Gut Group www.leewells.org AES+F Group, More Than Paradise, 2002, 10:14 min Yuliya Lanina, Mishka, 2008, 4:43 min Den Marino, Clouds, 2008, 6:12 Kirill Preobrazhenskiy, Ave Maria, 2005, 5:00 min Masha Sha, Interpretation, 2007, 4:08 min Julia Milner, Universe, 2008, 10:00 min Zer Gut Group, The 730 Days, 2004, 1:35 min

Panel Discussion 4pm­-6pm A open discussion on Contemporary Russian Video and New Media Alisa Prudnikova, Anya Zaytseva, Christina Steinbrecher, Anna Frants, Juan Puntez, and Leah Stuhltrager.  Moderated by Lee Wells

This program was made possible by the generous support by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the National Center for Contemporary Arts Ekaterinburg branch, Winzavod Contemporary Art Center, CINE FANTOM, International Fine Arts Consortium, Perpetual Art Machine, and the Scope Foundation.

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