720:576 – 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 New Icarus https://videoarchive.cyland.org/video_archive/new_icarus/ Sun, 09 Jul 2017 22:23:19 +0000 http://videoarchive.cyland.org/?post_type=video_archive&p=10259 The idea of the film was born after reading Vsevolod Pudovkin’s filmography that included the movie “The End of St. Petersburg” made in the 1920s. It was 1992, the time of Perestroika. The Greek myths have always provided abundant material for stories about people falling apart because of diverse temptations. The artist selects the mythological … Continue reading "New Icarus"

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