Duration
2.12.24, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Language
English, Russian, Icelandic
Admission
7€ | including a reduced-price admission to the exhibition
Info
Accompanying the exhibition "Velvet Terrorism: Pussy Riot’s Russia", a film screening will take place in the auditorium of Haus der Kunst, featuring the German premiere of Soviet Barbara, the Story of Ragnar Kjartansson in Moscow.
In 1992, only a week after the fall of the Soviet Union, the American soap opera Santa Barbara became for ordinary Russians a window into the western way of life and immensely popular with the nation. Thirty years later, shortly before the Russian invasion in Ukraine, Icelandic visual artist Ragnar Kjartansson opened a monumental exhibition at a new arts center called GES-2 in the heart of Moscow. In a former power plant that used to power the Kremlin, now owned and renovated for one of Russia’s richest men, Kjartansson’s main attraction was an unprecedented living sculpture called Santa Barbara. The film follows Kjartansson throughout the installation of the exhibition at GES-2 in Moscow, offering a unique insight of his encounter with Maria Alyokhina of Pussy Riot and of the genesis of the exhibition "Velvet Terrorism: Pussy Riot’s Russia".
Director(s): Gaukur Úlfarsson
Screenplay: Gaukur Úlfarsson, Guðni Tómasson
Producer(s): Gaukur Úlfarsson, Guðrún Olsen, Guðni Tómasson, Kristín Ólafsdóttir & Freyr Árnason
Cinematography: Hákon Sverrir Sverrisson & Magnús Ingvar Bjarnason
Editing: Elistabet Ronaldsdóttir & Sigurður Kristinn Ómarsson
Sound: Kári Jóhannsson
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