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 archive

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 18, 4 p.m. The Downs Comment on the World project: Uncontrollable for Everyone, 1995; Yes! Downs...or the Hunt for the Golden Birds, 1997
 

The Downs Comment on the World project was carried out by Boris Yukhananov between 1994 and 1997, and was an action that allows us to see the world through the consciousness of those who are “different” from us. In fact, this is the first theatre project of this type in Russian practice. In the theatrical part of the project, actors with Down syndrome become "garden creatures," and participate in the creation of The Garden (5th Regeneration). In Uncontrollable for Everyone, the same actors comment on the gospel. In Yes! Downs... they reflect on television, interview each other and record journalistic reports, which, in the course of time, turn into confessions. “These individuals exude love and joy. If the human community leaves them alone, does not try to educate them and turn them into bad people, then practically right there - inside of them - the evolution of man has already been completed. (Boris Yukhananov)

See details on the Boris Yukhananov website.