Program
The silent film The Glass Eye created by Lilya Brik in collaboration with Vitaly Zhemchuzhny in 1928 will be screened accompanied by Nikolai Mazhara’s piano pieces performed by the author as part of the Silence of Cinema programme, a joint project of Dom Radio and the Gosfilmofond of Russia.
Details
It is no coincidence that the second title of Lilya Brik’s first and only directorial work which she co-authored with Vitaly Zhemchuzhny is A Film about a Film. The avant-garde film mixes unrelated fragments of a documentary chronicle: a street in Paris, an African tribe, and the coronation of Nicholas II strobe on the screen. The inserted novella parodies the cliches of feature films of the time — chases, shipwrecks, as well as backstage footage from the filming of the novella itself. Everything ends with Soviet workers and athletes marching.