The Cinema of Boris Yukhananov.

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

Films and theatre productions from the Boris Yukhananov archiveJointly 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 14, 4 p.m.. Sphere, 2017; Genre, 2017, two films directed by Klim Kozinsky

The film Sphere was shot by Klim Kozinsky, based on the legendary Kratovo Mystery, which was the beginning point of The Garden project. A summer house and its surroundings in Kratovo near Moscow were turned into a territory the supported the emergence of The Garden – one of Boris Yukhananov's most important new-processual projects, which underwent eight regenerations from 1990 to 2000.

See details on the Boris Yukhananov website.

The time-frame of the film Genre falls on the events of the August coup of 1991. Rehearsals and auditions for the dramatic game Genre are held against the background of actual radio transmissions of people standing by the Russian White House. Klim Kozinsky created this film from video documentary materials from the Boris Yukhananov archive. The world premiere of the film took place in 2017 at the Doclisboa Festival in Lisbon.

See details on the Boris Yukhananov website.