12:36
2023
Location : Cinema Zawya
Date – Time : 12/12/2024 7-9pm
The experimental film explores how art and culture become tools of military propaganda for the benefit of the authorities. How in modern Russia, there is an attempt to jumpstart the second wind of the Soviet Union’s monumental propaganda to justify and support the war in Ukraine.
The film alternates through long, slow shots of 1930s Soviet architecture viewed as monumental propaganda before World War II. One of these is the VDNH park in Moscow, built by Stalin in the 1930s as a utopia for the Soviet people, a future city they were never destined to be in. The use of baroque elements, massive columns, and other details of unthinkable dimensions was supposed to inspire horror and a sense of worthlessness, provoking complete submission to the authorities.