Moscow will host the Beat Film Festival

MOSCOW. Tomorrow, May 28, in Moscow, I will start showing screenings at the Beat Film Festival, a new documentary film about music. This year, for the first time, the film forum program included not only music films, but also a full-length documentary about William Burroughs and the last film of the American documentary classic Albert Meisels.

One of the key events of the festival will be the Russian premiere of the cult picture “Burroughs” shot by Howard Bruckner and his classmates Tom DiChillo and Jim Jarmusch in 1983. The film was restored and re-released by filmmaker’s nephew Aaron Bruckner, who will attend the Beat Film Festival to personally present the film.

The opening of the festival will be marked by the screening of the international premiere of the film by American artist Doug Aitken "From station to station." The picture tells how in September last year, Aitken made a giant light installation from an ordinary train, filled wagons with famous artists of all stripes and traveled by rail from the East to the West Coast, the journey took 22 days.

The film was first presented this year at the Sundance Film Festival, and already in June, simultaneously with its release in the UK box office, “From Station to Station” will be broadcast for a month in the London Barbican center.

The main program of the new documentary film about the Beat Film Festival music included such films as “Orion” (directed by Ginny Finlay), “Island City” (directed by Timothy Kelly), “Lee Scratch Perry: A Vision of Paradise”, (directed by Walker Chaner), “Sume - the sound of revolution” (dir. Incuk Silis Heg), “Beloved by Heaven” (dir. Nicholas Dylan Rossi), “Lambert and Stamp” (dir. James D. Cooper) and others.

The Beat Film Festival will be held from May 28 to June 7 at the Center for Documentary Films, at the summer cinema "Museon" and at the cinema "Formula Cinema Horizon". This year the festival is held for the first time with the support of the Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation.

Svetlana Korableva © Gallerix.ru