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St.Petersburg branch of National Center for Contemporary Arts
Cyland medialaboratory
present
Video show“Ecology today – ecology tomorrow”
Show will be held within the frame of Kronfest festival
(Kronstadt international ecological festival of arts)
27thJune, 6 p.m.
Address:Kronstadt, Sovietskaya street, building 35, “Bastion” cinema
This program represents video works by contemporary artists from the collection of Cyland video archive, as well as a compilation of various news programs, concerning the global ecological problems of our country and world, where we are living today. Program ranges from “global warming”, melting of ice in Antarctica, extinction of certain species of animals, to everyday traces of man's activities.
1. Ecology today – ecology tomorrow.
2010, 8:52
This film is an educational-informational mix about ecological problems today. Drying out Aral sea, the problem of waste and garbage recycling, air pollution in cities, oil overflow and dying of birds and animals – all this can't leave you indifferent, even in cold news reports.
2. Anton Khlabov. Around the city.
2007, 1:20
PAL, DVD-video, colour video, stereo
City – is a complex combination of elements of natural and artificial environments, where balance between natural and constructed has a vital meaning in life and health of every citizen. Video shows importance of maintaining this balance, slowly telling the grotesque story about the development of artificial lights, which can lead to loss of natural lights and the possibility of seeing the sky itself...
3. Anna Frants. Beyond Arctic Circle.
2010, 3:23
Today, polar bear became a symbol of disasters, related to global warming. Habitat of these animals being destroyed rapidly and they are under the threat of extinction in the nearest 45 years. Video was shot during the expedition of artists to Spitsbergen. Polar bear tears a body of dead whale.
4. Dmitry Moiseev. Alien.
2008, 9:25
An alien comes to planet Earth. A trip of naive glamorous cartoon alien among severe post-soviet industrial landscapes and deserted outskirts of dormitory areas can be watched without a pause.
Olya Zhuk
Written and directed by Dmitry Moiseev
Director of photography – Mikhail Fyodorov
Artists – Anatoly Belov, Dmitry Moiseev
Music – Dmitry Ibraimov (Hardtennis)
5. Vika Ilyushkina. Afterword.
2010. 2:27
Peaceful glade of “Victoria” park after the celebration of 1st May in Berlin.
6. Lyudmila Belova. The compelled Foreshortening.
1999. 13.33
In the year 2000 Lyudmila Belova was called the first russian media artist, who was awarded a prize by the ZKM, biggest center of new technologies in Karlsruhe (Germany), for “The compelled Foreshortening” video. This work shows what sees an automobile driver while staying in a traffic jam. Constrained movement, lack of opportunity to break out and drive away - this makes him examine cars, numbers, details – all those things we do not usually observe.
7. Greenpeace.
The Planet is choking because of garbage. 8.08.
Separate garbage collecting in St. Petersburg.
If you have questions, call:
Daria Schastlivtseva
PR-manager
NCCA St. Petersburg
(812) 275-47-71 www.ncca-spb.ru
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