DOCU/ART is one of the festival’s programs which presents three documentaries: “Is the Man Who is Tall Happy?”, “The Salt of the Earth”, “Art and Craft”, and four discussions focusing on how artistic interpretation, illustrated by a documentary, can change perception of reality. On the one hand, documentary is a genre which claims objectivity, but on the other, keeping in mind the presence of operator and editor, it is unable to overcome subjectivity completely. Therefore, in all three films included in the DOCU/ART program, the author’s position is not just highlighted – it sets the whole background.
All events will take place at the PinchukArtCentre and in the Kyiv Cinema House:
PinchukArtCentre: 1/3-2, "А" Block, Velyka Vasylkivska / Baseyna str.
Cinema "Kiev": 19, Velyka Vasylkivska str.
Short:
March 22, 21:00
Documentary Is the Man Who is Tall Happy, Michel Gondry
Venue: Kyiv Cinema House
March 23, 21:00
Documentary The Salt of the Earth, Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
Venue: Kyiv Cinema House, red stage
March 24, 19:00
Documentary Is the Man Who is Tall Happy, Michel Gondry
Imprint of Reality – discussion featuring program curators Olga Birzul and Olga Tykhonova, together with director Tetiana Kononenko
Venue: PinchukArtCentre
March 25, 19:00
Horatio: So have I heard and do in part believe it - discussion featuring program curators Olga Birzul and Olga Tykhonova, together with director Tetiana Kononenko
Venue: PinchukArtCentre
March 25, 21:00
Documentary Art and Craft, Sam Cullman, Jennifer Grausman
Venue: Kyiv Cinema House, red stage
March 26, 19:00
Truth Mode – discussion featuring photographers Oleksandr Liapin, Yevhenia Belorusets, Oleksandr Gliadelov and Valeriy Miloserdov, moderator – Anton Ivanov
Venue: PinchukArtCentre
March 26, 21:00
Documentary The Salt of the Earth, Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
Venue: Kyiv Cinema House, red stage
March 29
17:00 - Manipulations in the World of Art. History of Forgeries – lecture, art expert Natalia Romanova
19:00 - Documentary Art and Craft, Sam Cullman, Jennifer Grausman
Venue: PinchukArtCentre
Detailed schedule:
DOCU/АPT: screening of the film “Is the Man Who is Tall Happy?”
Sunday, March 22, 21:00/ Kyiv Cinema House, red hall
Through a series of interviews, Michel Gondry illustrates Noam Chomsky’s theories in an animated documentary “Is the Man Who is Tall Happy?”, where the director’s creativity and imagination serve the linguist’s intellectual rigor. The lively, sometimes intricate, often touching and always very humane dialogue with Chomsky is depicted naturally by a stream of Gondry’s subjective animations. Using animated drawings, the artist brings to light the main character both as an eminent professor and as a man.
Admission is free.
DOCU/АPT: screening of the film “The Salt of the Earth”
Monday, March 23, 21:00/ Kyiv Cinema House, red hall
“The Sаlt of the Earth” by Juliano Salgado and Wim Wenders tells a story of the photographer Sebastiao Salgado who, for the last 40 years, has been travelling through the continents in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. He has witnessed some of the major events of our recent history; international conflicts, starvation and exodus. He is now embarking on the discovery of pristine territories, of wild fauna and flora, and of grandiose landscapes as part of a huge photographic project which is a tribute to the planet’s beauty. Sebastiao Salgado’s life and work are revealed to us by his son Juliano, who went with him during his last travels, and by Wim Wenders, himself a photographer.
Admission is free.
DOCU/АPT: screening of documentary “Is the Man Who is Tall Happy?” and discussion “Imprint of Reality”
Tuesday, March 24, 21:00/ PinchukArtCentre
In “Is the Man Who is Tall Happy?”, through a series of interviews, Michel Gondry illustrates Noam Chomsky’s theories in an animated documentary, where the director’s creativity and imagination serve the linguist’s intellectual rigor. The lively, sometimes intricate, often touching and always very humane dialogue with Chomsky is depicted naturally by a stream of Gondry’s subjective animations. Using animated drawings, the artist brings to light the main character both as an eminent professor and as a man.
“Is the Man Who is Tall Happy?” is the most “auteur film” among the DOCU/ART threesome. In order to grasp how Michel Gondry has succeeded in creating such a distinctive and honest project, we invite public to a pre-film screening discussion to talk about the role of author and viewer in the documentary filmmaking. As part of the discussion “Imprint of Reality” featuring program curators Olga Birzul and Olga Tykhonova, as well as film director Tetiana Kononenko, the event participants will be offered to dwell on the following: what is the line between an acceptable erroneous vision of an artist and a manipulation – selective and deliberate distortion of reality? The unavoidable question we ask ourselves: if an author is unobvious, does it mean he doesn’t exist? And why his appearance in a documentary can be seen as a victory over totalitarianism of a thought?
Admission is free. Due to the limited number of seats an advance registration to all events held in the PinchukArtCentre is mandatory. Please call +380 44 590 08 58.
DOCU/АPT: discussion “Horatio: So have I heard and do in part believe it”
Wednesday, March 25, 19:00/ PinchukArtCentre
Documentary filmmaking, its development and transformation always have been and remain to be correlative of the history of society moods. Can it ever be considered outside the context of power? Dziga Vertov was the first to define a manipulative nature of a camera as an instrument for building reality. Narrative, fiction or a so called “distortion” are integral elements of cinematography, but is the audience ever aware of it? How to recognize when a film director uses the truth of life and when the truth of life uses him? All of these topics will be at the centre of attention during the discussion “Horatio: So have I heard and do in part believe it” with the DOCU/ART program curators Olga Birzul and Olga Tykhonova, and film director Tetiana Kononenko.
Admission is free. Due to the limited number of seats an advance registration to all events held in the PinchukArtCentre is mandatory. Please call +380 44 590 08 58.
DOCU/АPT: screening of the film “Art and Craft”
Wednesday, March 25, 21:00/ Kyiv Cinema House, red hall
“Art and Craft” by Sam Cullman and Jennifer Grausman tells a story of Mark Landis who has been called one of the most prolific art forgers in US history. His impressive body of work spans thirty years, covering a wide range of painting styles and periods that includes 15th-century icons, Picasso, and even Walt Disney. But Landis isn’t in it for the money. Posing as a philanthropic donor, a grieving executor of a family member’s will, and most recently as a Jesuit priest, Landis has given away hundreds of works over the years to a staggering list of institutions across the United States. Art and Craft starts out as a cat-and-mouse art caper, rooted in questions of authorship and authenticity –but what emerges is an intimate story of obsession and the universal need for community, appreciation, and purpose.
Admission is free.
DOCU/АPT: discussion “Truth Mode”
Thursday, March 26, 19:00/ PinchukArtCentre
For some time photography has been performing an archive function, best adapted to the needs of the developing industrial society in an attempt to record the rapidly changing world. Archiving and documenting practices through photography have culminated in a form of a photo-report. Speed, proximity to the event and a contact with a key moment allowed photography to lay claim to objectivity. But over time, due to the development of digital technologies, increased flow of information and visual image satiation, photo-reporters started to join different camps, adopting different attitude to place, time and character in photography. Remoteness and impartiality or closeness and dialogue determine an author's documentary practice. “Which of these can be called manipulation?” is the question that will be the core of the discussion “Truth Mode.”
The event features photographers Oleksandr Liapin, Yevhenia Belorusets, Oleksandr Gliadelov, Valeriy Miloserdov and art manager and ex-photo editor of Esquire Ukraine Anton Ivanov as discussion moderator.
Admission is free. Due to the limited number of seats an advance registration to all events held in the PinchukArtCentre is mandatory. Please call +380 44 590 08 58.
DOCU/АPT: screening of the film “The Salt of the Earth”
Thursday, March 26, 21:00/ Kyiv Cinema House, red hall
“The Sаlt of the Earth” by Juliano Salgado and Wim Wenders tells a story of the photographer Sebastiao Salgado who, for the last 40 years, has been travelling through the continents in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. He has witnessed some of the major events of our recent history; international conflicts, starvation and exodus. He is now embarking on the discovery of pristine territories, of wild fauna and flora, and of grandiose landscapes as part of a huge photographic project which is a tribute to the planet’s beauty. Sebastiao Salgado’s life and work are revealed to us by his son Juliano, who went with him during his last travels, and by Wim Wenders, himself a photographer.
Admission is free.
DOCU/АPT: lecture “Manipulations in the World of Art. History of Forgeries” and screening of the film “Art and Craft”
Sunday, March 29, 15:00/ PinchukArtCentre
During the lecture “Manipulations in the World of Art. History of Forgeries”, art expert Natalia Romanova will talk about the first accounts of the art forgery; how many of them there are and whether the record of them is kept; what Ukrainian legislation states on art expertise and whether these instructions are followed. Also, lecturer will focus on the history of fake paintings imitating Ukrainian classics of the Soviet period, and on a “Tetiana Yablonska - Gayane Atayan” case.
The lecture will be followed by screening of the documentary “Art and Craft” directed by Sam Cullman and Jennifer Grausman. It tells a story about Mark Landis, who has been called one of the most prolific art forgers in US history. His impressive body of work covers a wide range of painting styles and periods that includes 15th-century icons, Picasso, and even Walt Disney spaning for thirty years. But Landis isn’t in it for the money. Posing as a philanthropic donor, a grieving executor of a family member’s will, and most recently as a Jesuit priest, Landis has given away hundreds of works over the years to a staggering list of institutions across the United States.
Admission is free. Due to the limited number of seats an advance registration is mandatory. Please call +380 44 590 08 58.
Registered event attendees will have priority entry to the art centre without queuing. To register in advance and receive additional information, please use the contact information below:
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