SPECIAL SCREENING: Present.Perfect.

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Film-collage made from footage of Chinese video streaming services, that have become for many people the only way to avoid loneliness.

Настоящее.Совершенное.
China, Hong Kong, USA | 2019 | 124 min
Shengze Zhu
Weaving together footage filmed and broadcasted by little-known Chinese live-streaming anchors, who struggle with real-life face-to-face social interaction because of their identity, disability and social-economic status, this cinematic collage explores how individuals satisfy their cravings for human connection through virtual togetherness, and how these virtual relationships challenge standard definitions of companionship.

Shengze Zhu


Shengze Zhu (b. 1987, China ) is a documentary filmmaker and producer. She co-founded BURN THE FILM with Zhengfan Yang, and they have been collaborating as dynamic duo since 2012. OUT OF FOCUS (2014) is Zhu's directorial feature debut, which premiered at the Cinéma du Réel in France. Her second feature documentary ANOTHER YEAR (2016) premiered at the Visions du Réel in Switzerland and received the Sesterce d'or / Best Film Award; it also received the Grand Prize at the RIDM Montreal International Documentary Festival, the Critic's Award at the Olhar de Cinema (Brazil), and was honored as "Top 10 Films of the Year" in 2016 by 24 Images magazine (Canada). PRESENT.PERFECT. (2019) is her third feature, which premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and received the prestigious Tiger Award.
July 12
21:30
Garage Screen summer cinema, 18+
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PROGRAMME 2019
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AUX Night 2.0 – the night program of MIEFF will consist of a series of audiovisual performances by artists from Japan, USA, Czech Republic and Spain.
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The programme presents the following films by Bahar Noorizadeh, Helena Wittman, Eduardo Williams, Mariano Blatt and Apichatpong Weerasethakul
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The programme presents the following films by Laure Provost, Wong Ping, Maya Schweizer, Reiner Kohlberger and Belit Sağ
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The programme presents the following films by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Sid Iandovka, Anya Tsyrlina, Payal Kapadia, Chen Chen Yu and Jodie Mack
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The programme presents the following films by Sky Hopinka, Andrew Norman Wilson, Catarina Mourao, Mary Helena Clark and Victor Alimpiev
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The programme presents the following films by Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis, Sara Cwynar, Sam Smith, Stefano Canapa and Azar Saiyar
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The programme presents the following films by Jorge Jacome, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Beatrice Gibson, Florian Fischer and Johannes Krell
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The programme presents the following films by Malena Szlam, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Nazlı Dinçel, Miriam Gossing, Lina Sieckmann and Jean-Marie Straub
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The first Russian retrospective of American post-war avant-garde cinema pioneer Bruce Conner
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A retrospective of the American avant-garde films, constructed around the autobiographical essay film by filmmaker and archivist Ross Lipman
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A retrospective of the American avant-garde films, constructed around the autobiographical essay film by filmmaker and archivist Ross Lipman
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Spectacular futuristic fantasy by Lawrence Lek, MIEFF 2019 opening film
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World premiere of the film about industrial music as a way to talk about death by Russian artist and filmmaker Daniil Zinchenko
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Double premiere of the iconic Taiwanese film director Tsai Ming-Liang
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The third film from the cycle by Oleg Mavromatti about video blogs tells a fantastic story about a romantic admirer of Soviet steam locomotives Anya Kadet, who faced the hell of post-Soviet reality
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Two different approaches to historical memory in two films about the complex history of China
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Lecture by Canadian artist Bahar Noorizadeh about new ways of seeing in the era of total digitalization
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A speculative lecture by artist Lawrence Lek on digital technology, creativity and future of art
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Film retrospective of the European avant-garde films of the 1930s from Gosfilmofond Archive
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Selected editions of the popular Soviet newsreel, accompanied by a commentator speech and sound artist performance
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Workshop introduction lecture by Philipp Fleischmann
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The festival closing night, awards ceremony, as well as the Russian premiere of Rachel Maclean's sharp satire on systemic misogyny in the era of social media
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A night session of the competition programme especially for those who were busy during the day
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A night session of the competition programme especially for those who were busy during the day
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Prize-winners screening of the IV Moscow International Experimental Film Festival MIEFF 2019