35mm – Cyland Video Archive https://videoarchive.cyland.org Video Archive Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:54:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.25 Andromeda – The Girl Who Smoked Soap https://videoarchive.cyland.org/video_archive/andromeda-the-girl-who-smoked-soap/ Tue, 06 Feb 2024 20:11:40 +0000 https://videoarchive.cyland.org/?post_type=video_archive&p=20718 Andromeda is a performance film that plays with texts and iconography in a postmodern manner. A combination of texts written by author CarlosMagno Rodríguez and his co-authors Giselle Werneck, Lindbergh Fernandez, interspersed with quotes from Lucien Ducasse’s Isidora (Fragments from the Songs of Maldoror) combined with biblical quotations and lengthy discussions on pollution, etc. Read … Continue reading "Andromeda – The Girl Who Smoked Soap"

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]]> Andromeda is a performance film that plays with texts and iconography in a postmodern manner. A combination of texts written by author CarlosMagno Rodríguez and his co-authors Giselle Werneck, Lindbergh Fernandez, interspersed with quotes from Lucien Ducasse’s Isidora (Fragments from the Songs of Maldoror) combined with biblical quotations and lengthy discussions on pollution, etc. Read out by a character with a megaphone, they are no longer outrageous, transgressive or liberating, just twisted literature of enchantment, with no morals. The characters pose for an iconographic composition close to the Christian and Renaissance traditions, a kind of imagined “Last Supper”.

 

Andromeda is a cinematographic reality, created for questioning disparate, paradoxical iconographic models, criticizing modern society as if numb and frozen in front of the All-Seeing Eye-the camera’s eye. This also applies to music, such as the accordion music “Kanonen’s Song” and “The Ballad of a Soldier’s Wife” by Kurt Keil (co-author of Bertolt Brecht). 

 

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]]> Spring https://videoarchive.cyland.org/video_archive/spring/ Thu, 09 Apr 2020 15:28:28 +0000 http://videoarchive.cyland.org/?post_type=video_archive&p=11614 Spring demonstrates the precision of Yevgeni Yufit’s structural and editing techniques. It was conceived as a manifesto of necrorealism. The film combines intuition, an interest in the unconscious mind and shock tactics (traditions of the 1920’s avant-garde) with social issues of Soviet Russia.

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]]> Spring demonstrates the precision of Yevgeni Yufit’s structural and editing techniques. It was conceived as a manifesto of necrorealism. The film combines intuition, an interest in the unconscious mind and shock tactics (traditions of the 1920’s avant-garde) with social issues of Soviet Russia.

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]]> Woodcutter https://videoarchive.cyland.org/video_archive/woodcutter/ Thu, 09 Apr 2020 14:56:39 +0000 http://videoarchive.cyland.org/?post_type=video_archive&p=11610 An eccentric and absurd comedy with endless non-stop fighting, chasing, murders and suicides which are intercut with Soviet symbols of peace and freedom – white doves flying away from the hands of ‘pioneers’ – and documentary footage of the pioneers’ everyday lives.

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]]> An eccentric and absurd comedy with endless non-stop fighting, chasing, murders and suicides which are intercut with Soviet symbols of peace and freedom – white doves flying away from the hands of ‘pioneers’ – and documentary footage of the pioneers’ everyday lives.

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