July 13, 7:30 pm
Boris Nelepo, film viewing and discussion: Living in Seville / Vivir en Sevilla, directed by Gonzalo García Pelayo, Spain, 1978.
Rosa loves Miguel, but leaves him for his best friend, the painter Luis, who has returned after a 40 year exile. Seville, spring, the first years following the death of Franco. Pelayo’s heroes are a generation born in a time of prudishness who find their adult selves in a new and free world.
Living in Seville is an encyclopedia of life in the Andalusian capital at the end of the 1970s. What is it that defines a city? Its inhabitants as they are captured on film — ’the last representatives of real Bohemia’, artists, political activists, rock musicians and even the legendary Flamenco performer Farucco. Gonzalo García Pelayo — roulette-player, traveller, godfather of Andalusian rock, sex addict and Catholic — combines such a wide variety of techniques in Living in Seville that you can make a study of experimental cinema in the 1970s by just watching this one film. It will be shown in Russia for the very first time, having never been released as a DVD.
Boris Nelepo (Moscow) is a film-critic, curator and film-festival selector. He worked as guest editor on a special edition of Séance magazine devoted to French cinema and was one of the translators of the book A battle on two fronts. Jean-Luc Godard and the Dziga Vertov Group. He is a regular contributor to Séance and Radio Liberty, and has organized retrospectives on Jacques Rivette, Želimir Žilnik, Peter von Bagh, Pierre Léon, Phillipe Garrel and Béla Tarr. Boris has lectured on film history at the Russian State University for the Humanities, the Moscow School of New Cinema and the Moscow School of Cinema. He is consultant on CIS cinema for the Locarno Film Festival, as well as being consultant for Berlin Critics’ Week and chief selector for the Two Fires cinema festival
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.
