2, an avalanche of cancellations and bans began all across the country after Russia officially outlawed criticism of war. The Kremlin fired back at artists by shutting down Russia’s best contemporary theatre, Gogol Center, on July 1, then the Bolshoi cancelled ballets and operas by its directors without giving any reason, and finally, on Sept. “Beginning from the first day of the war, I posted on social media for Russia to stop the horror. Then more concerts were cancelled,” Osetinskaya told The Daily Beast. “I have no idea who makes such decisions, out of the blue I was informed I would not be playing the Triple Concerto by Beethoven. Petersburg but found out that her performance had been cancelled. My friends in Ukraine, Kyiv, Odesa, I have no words, I did not think I would ever live to see this.” “As a child of the World War II, I could not imagine even in my worst nightmare that Russian bombs would target Ukrainian cities, villages, force Kyiv residence into bomb shelters, make them flee from their own country,” Lev Dodin, an acclaimed Russian theater director of the Maly Drama Theatre said.Ĭelebrated pianist Polina Osetinskaya, who played a concert at Carnegie Hall last October, posted on Facebook on the first day of the war: “Horror, shame and disgust. 24, dozens of Russia’s leading artists have been signing letters, petitions, and recording videos addressed to the Kremlin demanding an end to the war. But Russia is fighting against the leading voices in arts.”Įver since Russian president Vladimir Putin sent the army to Ukraine on Feb. “It was the only center in Russia that showed so many of the world’s best documentary films. The development of cinematography in Russia, just when it started joining the international process of art development is frozen,” Moskvina told The Daily Beast. “The USSR did not have any documentary filmmakers and now authorities ban international documentary films. It also looks like they are fighting against any Western influence in arts.”įor 38-year-old Evdokia Moskvina, an award-winning filmmaker, the end of the center was also the end of an exciting era, a place where she had premieres and talked of her films, Occupation 1968, about a journey of old Russian generals from their hometown of Odesa to Prague, and Forbidden Children, in which Moskvina documented the sad lives of five Russian girls in the refugee camp of Al-Khol, whose parents were killed by ISIS. “By one version, it was done for fire safety reasons, by the other they shut it down because I spoke against the war. 2 we were supposed to start our new season but the city authorities shut down the center, which is a private company,” Kapkova told The Daily Beast on the phone from New York. Last year the center presented the American Autumn Film Festival from early October till late December, playing the best American movies from 1970s, with support of the U.S. Intellectuals, artists, hipsters loved it-the center screened film five times a day, five days a week, and invited international directors for long and thoughtful discussions with their audiences. The center was the place where thousands of film lovers could see the best international feature and documentary films. Sofia Kapkova, the founder of the Documentary Film Center said that Sept.
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