The Needle
In collaboration with Galerie de l'UQAM, we are extending our dialogue with Uzbek artist and filmmaker Saodat Ismailova (Berlinale, Venice Biennale). Echoing the Archives in the Hands of Filmmakers exhibition (coming in June), we are screening her film Swan Lake, which reuses images from Soviet cinema to create a singular work. We are also featuring an iconic film from the end of the Soviet era that deeply influenced the artist.
Preceded by short film Swan Lake
Swan Lake is a historical essay composed of archival footage from Central Asia spanning the decade before and after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
In this second collaboration between Rashid Nugmanov and Soviet rocker Viktor Tsoi, Tsoi plays Moro, who returns to his hometown of Alma-Ata in Kazakhstan. He finds that the region has changed for the worse, and he must help Dina, his ex-girlfriend, overcome her morphine addiction.
Rashid Nugmanov
Rashid Nugmanov is a Kazakh film director, dissident, and political activist. He notably directed The Needle (1988), starring Viktor Tsoi and Pyotr Mamonov, as well as The Wild East (1993). He is part of the Kazakh New Wave cinema movement.
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