Second Moscow International Open Book Festival
Музыкальные российские · 02.06.2007
The Moscow International Open Book Festival is a free celebration of people united around the book. The book embodies all the achievements of human culture. Literature, music, exact and natural sciences, cinema, cooking, and business - all find their reflection in books. Therefore, book festivals around the world are extraordinarily diverse and festive events.
In the book program we expect a meeting with the master of humorous prose #1 and the most read author in the UK, Terry Pratchett, whose real success came in 1983 with the publication of the brilliant humorous fantasy novel 'The Colour of Magic'; with Czech poet, prose writer, and essayist, a notable member of the Czech psychedelic group 'Plastic People of the Universe', Ivan Martin Jirous; with famous TV host Andrey Malakhov at the master class 'Living Among Blondes'; with German writer Thomas Meinecke, who hosts his own show on the radio; with Swedish writers Magnus Florin and poet Fredrik Norberg, who will discuss the scientist Carl Linnaeus; with Alexander Shirvindt in the program 'Theatrical Memoirs' and many other foreign and Russian authors. Public lectures are planned (including from the Institute of the Russian Language).
At the first festival, the genre of 'video poetry' was presented to the general public for the first time - short films made by young directors based on poems by contemporary poets. This year, we are holding a video poetry competition in Russian for the first time - in a slam format well-known to the Moscow audience. Spectators and listeners will be able to vote for their favorite films and directly influence the choice of the winner.
In the musical program, artists such as the cinematic Londoners, the time-warp group Gamine (UK), the creative Scandinavian duo Susanna and The Magical Orchestra (Norway), the famous French actress accompanied by Parisian rogue musicians - Jeanne Balibar feat. Poni Hoax (France), musician, philosophy professor, and cult figure of modern French poetry - Rodolphe Burger feat. Olivier Cadiot (France), key figure in New York's artistic life Paul Miller aka Dj Spooky (USA), Belgian chansonnier Arno (Belgium), as well as Russian performers: 'one-man-band' Yevgeny Grishkovets and 'Bigudi', superstar of alternative musical culture Delfin, and king of rockapops Ilya Lagutenko.
The headliner of the Art Music program will be the iconic English cabaret-punk trio The Tiger Lillies (UK).
In the film program, the following sections will be presented:
'Variations on the Theme: Love and Freedom' - the eternal story of the in-love and free gypsy: from Pushkin's prehistory - through adaptations of Mérimée's novella in different forms and genres - to the Gadarov's reception of the plot;
'Writing - Calligraphy - Cinema' - Latin and Cyrillic scripts, hieroglyphic writing and calligraphic traditions, scriptoriums and manuscripts in a form accessible to all;
'Animarama: Celebrities and National Schools' - domestic and foreign (Czech, Bulgarian, Canadian) animation linking cinema with literature, painting, and graphics, including comics and book illustrations;
'Silent Cinema - Live Music: Moscow-1927' - classic silent films set in 1927, accompanied by musicians under the night sky of Moscow 2007;
'Moscow through Time' - chronicles and feature films representing changing landscapes and the spirit of the city over a period of more than half a century of the last century;
'Literary Fairy Tale on Screen' - fairy tales created by writers from Russia, Germany, Czech Republic, India, and receiving a 'new life' in cinema;
'Writer's Blank Check' - a renowned writer presents their favorite film;
'A Poet in Russia is More than...' - non-fiction cinema about poets of Russia from Pushkin to Brodsky.
In the exhibition program, we will see the video exhibition 'Reading with Blue Noses', an exposition of contemporary Russian book illustrations, a comic book exhibition 'Best of the Best' (organized by 'КомМиссия'), an art book exhibition, a photo exhibition by D.A. Prigov 'Portrait of a Writer', the project 'Word and Brush: Contemporary Japanese Calligraphy' (organized by the Yekaterinburg Society 'Russia-Japan') and graphics by Basil Dulishkovich 'Ex Libris D'un Peintre' (organized by the Cultural, Scientific and Information Centre of the Hungarian Republic).
A special event of the festival will be the 'Haiku' program, organized jointly by the Information Department of the Embassy of Japan in Russia, the Yekaterinburg Society 'Russia-Japan', and GCMK. As part of the program, there will be an exhibition 'Word and Brush: Contemporary Japanese Calligraphy'; master classes by calligraphers, origamists, animators, as well as round tables and seminars 'Aesthetics of Haiku and Cinema' and 'Poetics of Haiku and the Russian Tradition' with the participation of Japanologists, translators, haiku poets; and the premiere of the animated film 'Winter Day', created by 35 directors from around the world based on haikus by Matsuo Basho.
In addition to the venue of the Central House of Artists, festival events will also take place at the Bilingua club, the Bulgarian Cultural Institute, the M. Gelman Gallery, the Italian Cultural Institute, the Cervantes Institute, the O.G.I. Project, and the Russian State Library.
Event Time: June 8 - June 12, 2007
Venue: Central House of Artists
Patronage: Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications, Government of Moscow, Moscow City Duma, Committee for Telecommunications and Mass Media of Moscow
Organizers: Central House of Artists, Art Moscow Foundation, International Confederation of Artists' Unions, Book Institute, Cavier Lounge, Cinema Museum.