Critical Writing Index

Bloodstained Works: The Glasnost Film Festival

by Amos Vogel

Afterimage, Nov. 1989, v. 17, no. 4, pp. 2, 21

"Bloodstained Works: The Glasnost Film Festival" lists and describes several different films within the festival which toured 22 American cities. The films explore subject matter such as famine, repression, wars, disappearances, mass graves, concentration camps, family, and time. Vogel critiques the Soviet documentaries and their limits based upon censorship, state funding, and lack of criticality of the past and present, with regard to the institutional bases.

ITEM 1989.114 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Solovetsky Power – Marina Goldovskaya

And the Past Seems But a Dream – Sergei Miroshnichenko

Counter Suit – Ruderman-Khaschevatsky

Black Square – Joseph Pasternak

The Trial – Igor Belyayev

The Tailor – Vladislav Mirzoyan

Dialogues – Nikolai Obukhovich

Homecoming – Tatyana Chubakova

This Is How We Live – Vladimir Oseldchik

Scenes at the Fountain – Igor Gonopolsky