Tackle tugs, patiently endure trials and survive in Kansk

KANSK. The results of the XVI International Video Festival are summed up.

The post-perestroika era has changed many fates, helped to host many successful projects. The only obstacle to the ambition and imagination of creative people could be a lack of funds. The festival of avant-garde cinema in the Krasnoyarsk Territory is the child of this amazing time. The people who made him and held in him can only quote the golden-haired classic: “I have now become stingier in desires. My life, or did you dream of me? ”

The idea of holding an alternative film forum in Siberia was “thrown” by the director Andrei Silvestrov, who discovered on the map almost the namesake of the famous French resort. Everything is limited to toponymic coincidences. The Siberian city, in need of major repairs and considerable investments, has other problems than the pearl of the Cote d’Azur. However, a team of enthusiasts in the person of Pavel Labazov and Nadezhda Bakuradze decided: to be a festival in Kansk. Informal, without pathos and cliches, fearless to experiment and search creatively. Since 2002, many interesting guests have visited it, many wonderful films have been shown, new monuments have appeared.

Despite financial difficulties, the destruction of art objects, wariness, hostility of part of the local population in relation to contemporary art, the festival survived. The creative “Palm Alley” also survived. The organizers, who once took up the tug, are ready, like Chekhov’s Sonya, to work for others and patiently endure the trials that fate will send them.

At the end of August, the next Kansky festival ended, the program of which included 23 paintings from different countries. The main award of the 16th film forum - “Golden Palm Secateurs” - went to the South Korean film Girl at the door (“Girl behind the door”). Script writer and director of the 12-minute short film Song Joosung touched on the current topic of domestic violence. Submissiveness of women often contradicts common sense and the instinct of self-preservation. Resignedly demolishing the tricks of a home tyrant, they expose their own children to attack. The young heroine, unlike her mother, is not satisfied with the role of a living "pear". Therefore, she works out painful techniques to repulse an aggressive drunken father.

The German film Atlas of the Wounded Buildings by Thadeusz Tischbein is in second place. The main idea: the wounds left by bullets on the walls of old buildings can tell a lot about the history of Europe, recall the people who died during the war. It is important not to miss, notice, archive. Ethan Folk of Seattle, the author of experimental paintings and installations, was awarded the third prize for Vernae, who explores the nature of violence. The special prize from the general sponsor went to the picture "Update / Delete" by Russians Grigory Kalinin and Alexey Ilyin about a man who comes into the view of modern gadgets.

Elena Tanakova © Gallerix.ru