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This year, MIEFF opening night will take place in the premises of The Cinema House, the place which hosted big premieres of Soviet and foreign films in the past. Russian premiere of Possessed, a dystopia by METAHAVEN design studio on smartphone addiction, ecology of images and memory in the modern world will be held in the historic hall with 1100 places.

Posessed

«Posessed»
Netherlands | 2018 | 67 min
Metahaven & Rob Schröder

Russian Premiere
Possessed veers between hard-edge documentary and dreamscape, to launch its complaint about the absorbing world of the smartphone. The millennial protagonist (Olivia Lonsdale) discovers a forgotten past among post-communist remains, and recounts childhood memories looking for new collectivism and empathy. Political theorists Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek provide analytical interruptions.

METAHAVEN


Metahaven's work spans art, filmmaking, writing and design to provoke new imaginaries that are equally bound to poetics, aesthetics, and politics. Moving image work includes Home (2014), and Interference (2015), both with musician, composer and artist Holly Herndon. Metahaven's full-length documentary, The Sprawl (Propaganda about Propaganda), premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2016. Its successor, a short film titled Information Skies, was shot and edited in 2016 and was nominated for the 2017 European Film Awards. The short film Hometown, a successor to Information Skies, was shot in Beirut and Kyiv in 2017.

Rob Schröder


Rob Schröder was one of the founders of Wild Plakken, a designers' collective working for cultural institutions such as The Dutch Opera and the Stedelijke Museum Amsterdam. Schröder also worked for the Dutch broadcaster VPRO and made several films, programs and political and cultural clips. In 1998 he won the prestigious H.N. Werkman Award for his documentary Speed and directed several other documentaries such as Staying Alive in Jo'burg and Meet the Fokkens which premiered at IDFA 2011 and was screened all around the world. Schröder was one of the founders of the Sandberg Institute, the post-graduate institute of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy.
September 26
19:30
DOM KINO, 18+
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PROGRAMME 2018
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Furious dystopia by METAHAVEN design studio in Soviet interiors of the Cinema House
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Innovative VR-film by Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang
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The programme presents the following films: WHAT'S THE DAMAGE, Swords, With history in a room filled with people with funny names 4, At the horizon
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The programme presents the following films: Flying proletarian, My expanded view, I Am Pagan Baby, 15 days, Pebbles
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The programme presents the following films: Ultima Ratio Δ Mountain of the Sun, DIT LEARN, The Worldly Cave, Three paths, Journey to the Far East
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The programme presents the following films: Fantasy sentences, The Walker, The Third Part of the Third Measure
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The programme presents the following films: Star Ferry, The Letter, Room with a coconut view, Sunstone, The Lost Head & The Bird
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The programme presents the following films: Flores, Legendary Reality, CONFUSION IS NEXT, Outside
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The programme presents the following films: Geomancer, Interregnum, Onward losseless follows
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The programme presents the following films: Shouting at the Ground, Mountain Plain Mountain, The Procedure
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First part of the retrospective screening of films of a classic of the world avant-garde cinema Peter Kubelka in the presence of the author himself
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Continuation of the retrospective film screening and public lecture by a pioneer of experimental cinema Peter Kubelka
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Improvised lecture-performance by Peter Kubelka on the history of communication, cinema and cooking from the Stone Age to our days
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Albert Serrat's grotesque film-performance about corporeality, death and power
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Observational documentary about one of the most famous cannibals of the 20th century
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Moscow premiere of the second collaborative work by Ben Russell and Ben Rivers
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Ben Russell's psychedelic documentary about an underground mine in the post-war state of Serbia and an illegal mining collective in Suriname
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Found-footage remake of Vertigo by Alfred Hitchcock
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Spectacular work about problems of modern society from Dutch design studio METAHAVEN, opening film of the festival
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Gloomy journey after the end times shot with Iphone 6
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Lecture and a retrospective screening of films by Dutch artist Joost Rekveld
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First retrospective of selected short films by American director and video artist Michael Robinson in Russia
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Alexander Kluge film essay dedicated to Sergey Eisenstein unrealized project - the film adaptation of Karl Marx' Capital. The screening will be followed by discussion with film historian Oksana Bulgakowa and political theorist Ilya Budraitskis.
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Special programme dedicated to the 120th anniversary of Sergey Eisenstein with the participation of video essayist Kevin B. Lee
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A series of live audiovisual performances by Russian and foreign video artists, composers and musicians
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Lecture by leading Taiwanese video artist about post-war Taiwan, corporeality and cinema as medium
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Artist and anti-copyright activist from Berlin will talk about the age of big data and what it means for urban studies
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Screening of the 1st Almanac of Parallel Cinema and discussion with directors Gleb Aleynikov and Peter Pospelov
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Films by Baltic Analog Lab members, results of the workshop on 16mm film shooting and development, and Kodak company presentation
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The festival closing ceremony and the world premiere of the «This is the Last Song of the Evening» by Evgeny Granilshchikov.