The Cinema of Boris Yukhananov.

The Cinema of Boris Yukhananov: We Gaze into the Past as if it Were the Present

1. Films and theatre productions from the Boris Yukhananov archive

2. Jointly with Seance magazine 

This is a collection of productions on video that originated in numerous past eras of Russian culture. Some of them capture projects of the 1980s and 1990s, when several hotbeds of underground art arose inside the Soviet Union. Others are laboratory projects exploring all sorts of texts, as well as the nature of the actor/amateur in a performance. Finally, the third part offers completed productions that were performed at various theatre venues in the 2000s. Filmed as cinema, not as theatre, these works are a snapshot of Boris Yukhananov's oeuvre, which anticipated many trends in contemporary theatre and performance art.

Streams will take place on the Seance website and on the Electrotheatre page in Vkontakte.
 

May 12, 4 p.m. The Mansion, 1986; a film about Theatre Theatre, 1989

The Mansion (1986) is the first film of the 1,000-cassette Mad Prince video novel. Most of the videos show rehearsals of a site-specific project that Boris Yukhananov created after visiting the Monrepos Park in Vyborg. “The performance was based on a simple idea: an episode was played out in each room, played out endlessly. And as if in a living sculpture of what was happening, spectators walked around it. The rehearsals of this spectacle seemed like a performance - at some point we just opened it up to audiences.” (Boris Yukhananov)

The film Theatre Theatre (1989) is made of unique video materials filmed while working on Yukhananov's most important theatre projects of the 1980s and 1990s: Monrepos (1986), The Misanthrope (1986), The Observer (1988) and Octavia (1989).

See details on the Boris Yukhananov website.