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Eye Filmmuseum seen across the river IJ © Marcus Koppen

Eye Filmmuseum, © Marcus Koppen

still from Brief Encounters (Kira Muratova, SU 1967)

still Brief Encounters (Kira Muratova, SU 1967)

poster Brief Encounters (Kira Muratova, SU 1967)

campain image Restored & Unseen

still from Klondike (Maryna Er Gorbach, UA/TR 2022)

still Klondike (Maryna Er Gorbach, UA/TR 2022)

Eye on Sound: Zemlya (Earth) (Oleksandr Dovzjhenko, SU 1930)

Eye on Sound: Zemlya (Earth) (soundwave)

still from A Spring for the Thirsty (Yuri Ilyenko, SU 1965)

still A Spring for the Thirsty (Yuri Ilyenko, SU 1965)

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Kira Muratova’s second feature film is a freely meandering portrait of a love triangle with Muratovain in the lead role. Object of desire is the attractive geologist Maxim, played by singer/underground hero Vladimir Visotski. The film, shot in Odesa, was almost instantaneously banned by the Soviet censors.

Maxim, a free-spirited intellectual who criss-crosses the Soviet Union as a geologist, has two lovers. There is Valentina in town, with a successful career in the Soviet bureaucracy, and in one of the villages Maxim visits, there is Nadja, a beautiful, young, somewhat naive country girl.

For Restored &amp; Unseen, Eye draws on its own collection and on the international repertoire of restored prints from foreign archives and the festival circuit. Films for aficionados. Your chance to tick off from your list that quirky classic starring Michel Piccoli, relive an old personal favourite in a new guise or simply allow yourself to be surprised.

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Brief Encounters

Oleksandr Dovzhenko’s 1930 classic is a lyrical ode to life in the fertile Ukrainian countryside and a call for collectivism, and agriculture according to socialist principles. Nevertheless, the Soviet authorities took umbrage with Dovzjhenko’s cinematographic masterpiece.

In a farming community, the new age dawns in the shape of a tractor. A young farmer called Vasily and a rich farmer’s son, the kulak Khoma, come into conflict when Vasily mows down the boundaries between the fields and this leads to him being killed. Socialist justice triumphs however as Khoma discovers when Vasily’s farming friends embrace collectivism. String Quartet The Ukrainian composer Maxim Shalygin wrote a short piece for a string quartet, in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine: 'Drop After Drop'. This will be performed live prior to the performance. Shalygin: “Since the first day of the war in Ukraine, a terrible pain has settled inside me. Every time I close my eyes, I want to wake up from this terrible dream… but alas, it is not a dream.” The film will be accompanied live by the Ukrainian singer Maryana Golovchenko, Pau Sola Masafrets (cello), Geerte de Koe (violin) and Cengiz Arslanpay (woodwinds, electronics and modular synths). And with Anna Antipova (violin) and George Dumitriu (viola) for the performance of the string quartet.

Zemlya

The visually overwhelming and strongly symbolical A Spring for the Thirsty paints the cycle of birth, life and death and is full of references to Ukraine folk culture.

Yuri Ilyenko, cameraman of Parajanov’s Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1964), debuted with a film that was at least as controversial as that of his mentor. The film centres on an old man living on his own on the edge of a desert. His family have moved elsewhere, leaving him behind with his visions and memories, which are evoked through powerful documentary imagery. A Spring for the Thirsty is reminiscent of the poetic films by the Ukraine film pioneer Alexander Dovzhenko, who was also a major influence on the work of Paradzhanov and Tarkovsky. The film was made in the aftermath of the Thaw, but was never released to film theatres. It was one of the major discoveries when the film vaults of the Soviet Union were finally opened at the end of the 1980s.

Bron voor de dorstigen

In 2014, a couple from the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine are expecting a baby whilst the ominous tension in their village just keeps rising. Klondike shows the barbarity of war and was praised for being one of the strongest dramas about this crucial time in recent history.

July 2014. Expectant parents Irka and Tolik live in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, close to the Russian border; contested lands since the start of the war in the Donbas. The ominous tension reaches its apogee in their village when Flight MH17 is shot down nearby.

Klondike

Kino Ukraïna

Introduced by Julia Kozyreva (in English)

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show for: 693113 2022-05-18 20:30:00

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show for: 571018 2022-05-26 14:00:00

Introductory talk with Robbie Schweiger, art historian, slavist and researcher at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Ukrainian artist Nikolay Karabinovych from Odessa who lives and works in Brussels and Kyiv. His media are video, sound, texts and performance.

Brief Encounters

Kira Moeratova / SUHH, 1967 / 96 min.

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