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THE DECONSTRUCTION OF AN ARTIST COMPLETED

date:
12.05.2008

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On May 6, the Latvian capital of Riga hosted the premiere of Peteris Krilovs' remarkable documentary film about one of the most controversial figures in Latvia's 20th century art. Klucis went from being an avantgarde pioneer of Constructivism and a prominent of the Soviet regime, to becoming one of the authors of the Lenin cult's public image and a victim of the Stalinist purges. Klucis and his collages are not only the film's subject but also inform its structure. The Deconstruction of an Artist constructs the Soviet Union using archive footage, reconstructs scenes from Klucis' life and deconstructs his avantgarde collages, the Stalin cult and ultimately also Klucis himself. Director Peteris Krilovs and producer Uldis Cekulis developed the project at the 2005 Ex Oriente Film workshop; this year they are going to travel the international festival and market circuit.

At one of the sessions of Ex Oriente Film, the project - under the working title Radiator in Art Nouveau Style - was introduced to Helena Fantl, director of Archidoc, an educational programme for archive documentary films at La Fémis, who included the film into the Archidoc workshop. Currently English subtitles and TV versions are being prepared. We will soon bring interviews with the filmmakers.

To read Tue Steen Müller's commentary, please click HERE

To see the short film segment, please click HERE

Deconstruction of an Artist

Director: Peteris Krilovs
Producer: Uldis Cekulis / Jean Francois Le Corre
Running Time: 56'
Production Company: Vides Filmu Studija
Co-production: Vivement Lundi (France) / ERT (Greece)
Script: Pauls Bankovskis
Cinematography: Andris Prieditis
Editor: Julia Vinten
Format: Digi Beta Cam
Country: Latvia

Annotation:
A documentary film about Gustav Klucis, a Latvian farmer who moved to Russia where he became a prominent Constructivist and eventually one of the victims of the Stalinist regime. Questions surrounding his life and career are far from being resolved...

Photo: Peteris Krilovs (left) and Tue Steen Müller (right) at the 2005 Ex Oriente Film workshop.

date:
12.05.2008

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