Director: Aleksandr Gornovskiy, Karen Shakhnazarov
Cast: Vladimir Ilin, Aleksey Vertkov, Aleksandr Pankratov-Chyornyy
Russia, 2009, 83’, color
Russian with Turkish subtitles
A bold modern day interpretation of Chekhov's story, Ward #6 is based on an actual incident, in which the director of a mental ward winds up becoming a patient on that very ward. The gradual estrangement of Dr. Andrey Ragin was used by Chekhov as a metaphor for a man's disappointment with the promises of science; in Karen Shaknazarov's version, (based on a screenplay he co-wrote with Alexander Boraadyansky) that disappointment might be read as an increasingly loss of faith in the nation's future. Shot in a real asylum in a vibrant, documentary like style, the film was made in record time (only four weeks) and has went on to be a major box office and critical hit in Russia.
"Fragmenting Chekhov's descriptions and putting them into the mouths of characters in mock interviews, juggling chronology, inserting silent homemovie footage and finally abandoning narrative altogether, the helmer deconstructs Chekhov to dazzling effect..."
Ronnie Scheib, Variety
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The exhibition Look at Me! Portraits and Other Fictions from the ”la Caixa” Contemporary Art Collection examines portraiture, one of the oldest artistic genres, through a significant number of works of our times. Through the exhibition we will be sharing about the artists and sections in “Look At Me!”.
Our institutions have been stuck on linear Neo-Platonic tracks for 24 centuries. These antiquated processes of deduction have lost their authority. Just like art it has fallen off its pedestal. Legal, educational and constitutional systems rigidly subscribe to these; they are 100% text based.
The Vanity of Small Differences is a series of six large scale tapestries, completed in 2012, which explore British fascination with taste and class, and can be seen in the Grayson Perry: Small Differences exhibition.
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