So VICE have launched a doc on Russian Cinema...
A bit of blurb for you:
For 60 years, Russian film was dominated by the state-approved imagery
of Socialist Realism: stark scenes of the proletariat; working,
farming and soldiering. Making movies outside this milieu meant
risking life and limb at the hands of the KGB. When the Soviet Union
collapsed, and that threat diminished, Russian filmmakers released six
decades of pent-up creative energy. The films that emerged were an
insane mish mash of booze, violence, surrealism, and insanity. Thus
Parallel Cinema was born.
To learn more about this bizarre and wonderful school of film-making,
Vice’s Shane Smith travels to Moscow to interview the motley cast of
characters that founded Russian Parallel Cinema. We meet Gleb and Igor
Aleinikov, two of Parallel Cinema’s most prolific creators; Oleg
Kulik, who spent a year as a dog; Andre Silvestrov and Pavel Liabazov,
founders of Alcho-Cinema; and notorious “Necro-Realist” Yevgeni Yufit. Pretty weird.
