Movie screening “Nyama” – documentary about Russian composer Nikolay Myaskovsky
WHEN: Friday, February 24, 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: RCC Our Texas (2337 Bissonnet Houston, TX 77005)
ADMISSION: $8/$6 for RCC members
Director: Boris Dvorkin, Russia, 2008
This movie is about wonderful Russian composer Nikolay Myaskovsky. He wrote 27 symphonies, and for many years was a professor of composition at Moscow Conservatory. Myaskovsky growed the whole pleiad of outstanding musicians. Unfortunately, today the name and works of Nikolay Myaskovsky are more known and popular outside of Russia than in his Motherland. The movie is the attempt to understand such forgetfulness and a story about composer’s life and work.
Time of screening: 52 min.
Language: Russian with English subtitles
Advance tickets purchase is recommended as seating is limited
Movie screening “Harvest Time” by Marina Razbezhkina
WHEN: Friday, March 30, 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: RCC Our Texas (2337 Bissonnet Houston, TX 77005)
ADMISSION: $8/$6 for RCC members
Director: Marina Razbezhkina, Russia, 2004
Marina Razbezhkina’s Harvest Time uses nostalgia as more of an emotional than intellectual device, looking back fondly – if still somewhat critically – at a hardship-wracked collective farming family in the Soviet Union of 1950.
Narrated in hindsight by the clan’s youngest child Vanya, documentarian Razbezhkina’s debut fictional feature assumes a perspective of wistful childhood memory, focusing specifically on the deterioration of combine operator Antonina after her superlative field work is rewarded by the Party with a prized red velvet banner adorned with the faces of Bolshevik Revolution leaders.
Time of screening: 67 min.
Language: Russian with English subtitles
Advance tickets purchase is recommended as seating is limited
Movie screening “The Desert of Forbidden Art”
WHEN: Friday, April 13, 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: RCC Our Texas (2337 Bissonnet Houston, TX 77005)
ADMISSION: $8/$6 for RCC members
Directors: Amanda Pope, Tchavdar Georgiev, Russia, Uzbekistan, USA, 2009
How did a treasure trove of banned Soviet art worth millions of dollars end up stashed in the far-off desert of Uzbekistan in a communist-funded museum? Thanks to the passion and daring of one man, Igor Savitsky. Pretending to buy state-approved art, Savitsky instead daringly rescued 40,000 forbidden works. Though a penniless artist himself, he cajoled the cash to pay for the art from the same authorities that were banning it and amassed the second largest collection of Russian avant-garde art in the world.
The film by Amanda Pope and Tchavdar Georgiev takes us on a dramatic journey of sacrifice for the sake of creative freedom.
Time of screening: 80 min.
Language: Russian with English subtitles
Advance tickets purchase is recommended as seating is limited
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