Justine Waddell

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About Kino Klassika Foundation
Kino Klassika creates programs of restorations,
publications, art commissions and events to
spotlight Russian language and Eastern cinema a
tradition that remains largely invisible to
audiences in the West.
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Our Story
We spotlight the traditions of Eastern cinema and
the remarkable stories behind their creation with
ambitious programs a film concert of Eisensteins
October with the London Symphony Orchestra and a
coffee table book of Eisensteins drawings in
collaboration with RGALI and Thames Hudson
publishers
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Our Values
1 Preserving and restoring film materials makes
them accessible to future generations of
audiences and artists
5 Unswerving editorial independence we select
contributors and projects purely on their
artistic and intellectual value.
2 We champion curatorial and research excellence
to build bridges of understanding.
6 We support engagement with film from all the
territories that make up a part of the former
Soviet Union.
7 Commissioning artists to respond to, challenge
and create new work based on the Russian
tradition of film enriches all film traditions
because education empowers creation.
3 Film re-animates digital and vice versa we
dont believe film is dead.
4 We are an open forum and we aim to be
transparent in our biases offering up a
self-reflective space where practitioners can
come together to examine, watch, dispute and
discuss films
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Current Projects include
Youth on the March! The Rise of the Soviet New
is a film season hosted with Londons oldest
cinema, the Regent St Cinema, which showcases the
Soviet New Waves most exhilarating films from
April to June 2018.
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Future Projects include
Kino Klassika partners with the Armenian Cinema
Centre and filmmaker Daniel Bird to restore
Sergei Parajanovs documentary film Hakob
Hovnatanyan (1967). Hakob was called the Raphael
of Tiflis. In his short documentary film about
him, Parajanov brings to dazzling life the
artistic culture of Tbilisi in the 19th century.