June 16, 7 PM
Admission is free of charge, lecture is delivered in Russian. Attendees must register in advance (link in Russian).
Séance magazine Film Club
Curator: Vassily Stepanov, film critic, Chief Editor, Séance magazine
For the new season, the Séance magazine film club will concentrate its attention on films that cannot be found on the internet, and which are therefore almost impossible to come by without the assistance of a curator. Among the themes to be covered: rarities and curiosities from festival programmes, repercussions from film competitions, wide-ranging lectures based on historical materials, controversial theories about the near future and paradoxical discoveries from the recent past.
Lecture-goers will have the chance to interact with young directors, to watch rare films selected by the magazine’s regular contributors, and to take part in special events combining film and related topics. The spring programme begins with short films: two screenings based on the competition programme from the Spirit of Fire festival for film-débuts, presented by the film critic and festival selector Anisya Kazakova, and Scéance contributor Andrey Kartashov, who this year sat on the jury for the short-film competition.
