Cinema / Performance Program Soviet cinema of the 1920s and after introduced Il cinema sovietico degli anni ’20 e successivi or popularized significant new genres and subjects: introdusse e rese popolari nuovi significativi generi agitational newsreels, educational shorts, and e soggetti: cinegiornali di protesta, cortometraggi documentaries on mass cultural events or the educativi e documentari su eventi culturali di massa everyday lives of urban or agricultural workers, o sulla vita di tutti i giorni dei lavoratori di città o among others. Trains and village tents became agricoli. Treni e tendoni diventarono case di cinema makeshift movie houses; in artists’ imagination, improvvisati; nell’immaginario degli artisti, chioschi multimedia kiosks would soon spring up on street multimediali sarebbero comparsi agli angoli delle corners across the USSR. The aim was to open a strade in tutta l’USSR. L’obbiettivo era quello di aprire vast, heterogeneous populace to new ideas and una vasta ed eterogenea popolazione a nuove idee e technologies and in doing so to shape tecnologie e così formare il vero popolo sovietico. a truly Soviet people. A metà del ventesimo secolo l’Unione Sovietica The Soviet Union inspired new systems of è stata di ispirazione per la nascita di nuovi sistemi governance across the world in the mid-twentieth governativi in tutto il mondo, quando gli imperi century, when Western colonial empires fell and coloniali occidentali decaddero e la Russia e gli Stati Russia and the United States battled for international Uniti combatterono per la supremazia internazionale. influence. Nei decenni del dopoguerra, le prime forme e teorie Early Soviet cinematic forms and theories were cinematiche sovietiche furono rianimate da registi revived during the postwar decades by filmmakers che condividevano le prime convinzioni sovietiche, who shared the early Soviet conviction that analysis per i quali l’analisi di una situazione rivoluzionaria, of a revolutionary situation—in culture as well as culturale come politica, richiede una rivoluzione politics—demands a revolution in form as well. Less in anche nella forma. Meno in evidenza dopo la Guerra evidence after the Cold War, the inspirations of the Fredda, le ispirazioni degli anni ’20 e ’60 hanno 1920s and the 1960s have nonetheless continued to tuttavia continuato a guidare certi cineasti guide some cinema auteurs into the present. verso il presente. Each evening from May 14 through May 29, this Ogni sera, dal 14 al 29 maggio, nel Cinema sulla Street Cinema space will host the screening of a Strada si terranno le proiezioni di film di riconosciuti feature film by an internationally recognized postwar registi del dopoguerra o contempornei, che operano or contemporary auteur working in the tradition of nella tradizione dei film sovetici sperimentali e/o experimental and/or politically committed Soviet politicamente impegnati. film. Il programma di tutte le proiezioni e spettacoli For a printed listing of all screenings and della mostra Space Force Construction è disponibile performances included in Space Force Construction nel Palazzo delle Zattere. exhibition, please pick up a brochure across the way in the Palazzo delle Zattere. Ingresso libero Free admission 9 May 11 May 2 – 3PM 11AM – 7PM Our Common Ghosts: Óptica Bronstein Informal Meeting Pablo Helguera and Yevgeniy Fiks Launch of Workweek, with artist Christian • Theatre gallery, First floor Nyampeta, philosopher Isaïe Nzeyimana, artist Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa, and the Venice Working 2 – 3PM Groups. Translation • Workers Club, Printing Room and Garden, Ground floor Olga Jitlina with Lampedusa in Hamburg • Street Cinema 10 May 2 – 4PM Our Common Ghosts: Preliminaries, 11AM – 7PM Histories and Vectors Óptica Bronstein Christian Nyampeta introduces, Pablo Helguera and Yevgeniy Fiks a lecture by philosopher Isaïe Nzeyimana with • Theatre gallery, First floor a response by artist Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa • Workers Club, Printing Room and Garden, Ground floor 2 – 4PM How To Live Together 3 – 3:30PM and 5 – 5:30PM Christian Nyampeta. Screening programme Dance, Sergey Sapozhnikov and listening session: • Garden, 30’ Emma Wolukau–Wanambwa Promised Lands. 2015. 23’. colour, sound 4 – 6PM Comment Vivre Ensemble Isasthenai, Tania Bruguera 2015–ongoing. 30’. colour, sound • Lenin Room, Ground floor The Common Cause Stomach it, Taus Makhacheva 2016. 6’. colour, sound • Various spaces Rushes, Sketches and Measures 2017. variable, colour, sound 7:30PM • Workers Club and Printing Room, Ground floor Soviet Toys Dziga Vertov. 1924. 10’. b/w, silent 3 – 3:30PM and 5 – 5:30PM Kino-Pravda, no. 21, 1925 Dance, Sergey Sapozhnikov (Lenin Kino-Pravda) • Garden, 30’ Dziga Vertov. 1925. 23’. b/w, silent China on Fire 4 – 6PM Nikolai Khodataev, Zenon Komissarenko, Isasthenai, Tania Bruguera Yurii Merkulov. 1925. 32’. b/w, silent (12’54’’ excerpt) • Lenin Room, Ground floor 78’ Stomach it, Taus Makhacheva The Eleventh Year • Various spaces Dziga Vertov. 1928. 45’. b/w, silent • Street Cinema 9 – 10PM Translation Olga Jitlina with Lampedusa in Hamburg • Street Cinema 12 May 13 May 11AM – 7PM 11AM – 7PM Óptica Bronstein Óptica Bronstein Pablo Helguera and Yevgeniy Fiks Pablo Helguera and Yevgeniy Fiks • Theatre gallery, First floor • Theatre gallery, First floor 2 – 3PM 2 – 6PM Translation Our Common Ghosts: Questions, Ideas Olga Jitlina with Lampedusa in Hamburg and Practices #1 • Street Cinema Open session hosted by the Venice Working Groups: ABOUT, AUT, IUAV Student Groups; sonic acts by 2 – 6PM musician Alvise Seggi, featuring an alternating band Our Common Ghosts: Questions, Ideas with a.o. Jennifer Cabrera Fernandez, Mafal Diaw, and Practices #1 Aldo Vio and Moulaye Niang. Open session and hosting by the Venice • Workers Club and Garden, Ground floor Working Groups: ABOUT; AUT; IUAV Student Groups 3 – 3:30PM and 5 – 5:30PM • Workers Club and Printing Room, Ground floor Dance, Sergey Sapozhnikov • Garden, 30’ 3 – 3:30PM and 5 – 5:30PM Dance, Sergey Sapozhnikov 6 – 8:30PM • Garden, 30’ Ten Minutes in the Morning Aleqsandre Jaliashvili. 1931. 29’. b/w, silent 4 – 6PM Youth in Bloom Isasthenai, Tania Bruguera Aleksandr Medvedkin. 1938. 36’. b/w, • Lenin Room, Ground floor silent (10’ excerpt) Stomach it, Taus Makhacheva The Event at the Stadium • Various spaces Aleksandr Ptushko. 1929. 6’. b/w, silent Skate Ring 7:30PM Ivan Ivanov-Vano, Yurii Zheliabuzhskii. Goskino: An Overview in March, 1924 1927. 7’. b/w, silent 10’. b/w, silent A Street Across Man with a Movie Camera Vladimir Suteev, Lev Atamanov. 1931. 12’. b/w Dziga Vertov. 1925. 80’. b/w, silent Look after Your Health (7’ excerpt) Aleksandr Medvedkin. 1929. 8’. b/w, silent Your Acquaintance Don’t Spit On the Floor (The Female Journalist) Vladimir Shirokov. 1929. 7’. b/w, silent Lev Kuleshov. 1927. 17’. b/w, silent How to Walk in the Street (5’ excerpt) Mikhail Verner. 1925. 7’. b/w, silent The Cigarette Girl from Mossel’prom Homeless Yurii Zheliabuzhskii. 1924. 93’. b/w, silent Boris Tseitlin. 1924. 9’50’’. b/w, silent (2’ excerpt) 96’ The Microbe of Communism The Eleventh Year Mikhail Doronin. 1925. 31’ b/w, silent Dziga Vertov. 1928. 45’. b/w, silent (2’ excerpt) • Street Cinema The Storming of the Winter Palace Nikolai Evreinov. 1920. 14’. b/w, silent 9 – 10PM Sevzapkino News, no. 12 Translation 1923. 2’. b/w, silent (16” excerpt) Olga Jitlina with Lampedusa in Hamburg 54’ • Street Cinema Happiness Alexander Medvedkin. 1934. 63’. b/w, silent 9PM • Street Cinema Aelita: Queen of Mars DJ Spooky aka Paul D. Miller • Auditorium Santa Margherita 14 May 16 May 11AM – 7PM 7:30PM Óptica Bronstein For Marx, Svetlana Baskova. 2012. 100’. color Pablo Helguera and Yevgeniy Fiks • Street Cinema • Theatre gallery, First floor 2 – 6PM Our Common Ghosts: Conclusions, 18 May Movements and Futures Closing dialogue of the Workweek, followed by 3 – 3:30PM and 5 – 5:30PM a listening session and a live music session. With Dance, Sergey Sapozhnikov Christian Nyampeta, philosopher Isaïe Nzeyimana • Garden, 30’ and artist Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa, the Venice Working Groups and music session organised by 7:30PM musician Alvise Seggi. Gleaners and I, Agnes Varda. 2002. 82’. color • Workers Club, Ground floor • Street Cinema 3 – 3:30PM and 5 – 5:30PM Dance, Sergey Sapozhnikov • Garden, 30’ 19 May 6 – 8:30PM 3 – 3:30PM and 5 – 5:30PM Soviet Toys Dance, Sergey Sapozhnikov Dziga Vertov. 1924. 10’. b/w, silent • Garden, 30’ Kino-Pravda, no. 21, 1925 (Lenin Kino-Pravda) 7:30PM Dziga Vertov. 1925. 23’. b/w, silent Not Reconciled China on Fire Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet. Nikolai Khodataev, Zenon Komissarenko, 1964. 55’. b/w Yurii Merkulov. 1925. 32’. b/w, silent • Street Cinema (12’54’’ excerpt) 78’ Happiness, Alexander Medvedkin. 1934. 20 May 63’. b/w, silent • Street Cinema 11AM – 7PM Óptica Bronstein 9 – 10PM Pablo Helguera and Yevgeniy Fiks Translation • Theatre gallery, First floor Olga Jitlina with Lampedusa in Hamburg • Street Cinema 2-4PM Our Common Ghosts Sonic acts by musician Alvise Seggi, featuring 15 May an alternating band • Garden 7:30PM Workers Leaving Factory 3 – 3:30PM and 5 – 5:30PM Harun Farocki. 1995. 37’. b/w and color Dance, Sergey Sapozhnikov Statues Also Die • Garden, 30’ Alains Resnais, Chris Marker, Ghislain Cloquet. 1963. 30’. b/w 7:30 PM • Street Cinema Salut les Cubains, Agnes Varda. 1963. 30’. b/w • Street Cinema 21 May 27 May 11AM – 7PM 11AM – 7PM Óptica Bronstein Óptica Bronstein Pablo Helguera and Yevgeniy Fiks Pablo Helguera and Yevgeniy Fiks • Theatre gallery, First floor • Theatre gallery, First floor 3 – 3:30PM and 5 – 5:30PM 2 – 4PM Dance, Sergey Sapozhnikov Our Common Ghosts • Garden, 30’ Sonic acts by musician Alvise Seggi, featuring an alternating band 7:30PM • Garden Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles 7:30PM Chantal Akerman. 1975. 201’. color A Grin without a Cat (1993!) • Street Cinema Chris Marker. 1993. 180’. b/w and color • Street Cinema 22 May 28 May 7:30PM The Last Bolshevik 11AM – 7PM Chris Marker.