June 22, 7:30 pm
Sensuela, dir. Teuvo Tulio, Finland, 1973.War and peace. Reindeer and snow. Sauna and sex. Pushkin and Tchaikovsky. Ruby lips, pink clips and Saamish revenge.
This film put an end to the career of a fine director. Released at the wrong time, it cut down in their prime everyone who had worked on it. Even today it can force a tear or hit you square in the solar plexus. Or just be more courageous than those who watch it. Critics and audiences alike have laughed at it and will continue to do so, but you see many people don’t understand that they are laughing not at the film, but at themselves.
Vassily Stepanov (St Petersburg) is a film-critic and editor-in-chief of Séance magazine, and a graduate of the Finno-Ugric department of the St Petersburg State University Faculty of Philology. From
The film is screened in its original language with subtitles.
Curator: Aleksey Artamonov, film critic.
For participants 18 years and older. Admission is free of charge. The number of participants is limited. Please register in advance.
Hidden, Film Club:
As part of the program, Hidden, film critics and film historians will showcase important films that have, for whatever reasons, remained in the shadows of the official canon, explaining their significance and what makes them extraordinary. But Hidden isn’t limited to the marginal, the forgotten or lost. It also explores the underbelly of films we thought we knew. By choice, the guests of these lectures on films will attempt to uncover these contradictions, leading us down into the depths of the human psyche and political systems, past and present. The speakers of this particular program include: Mikhail Ratgauz, Boris Nelepo, Vasily Koretsky, Mikhail Trofimenkov and many others, including one of Great Britain’s most preeminent film critics, Neil Young, and the renowned German media theorist Thomas Elsaesser. All of the films will be screened with subtitles.
