Alexander Selivanov @ арт-центра MAKARONKA, Театр 18+ (Rostov-on-Don, 09.12.2015)
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Symphocat & InEnsemble performance (Rostov-on-Don, 16/01/2019)
SSI: FONTAN. WINTER ETUDES
01 Russian Fairytales
Symphocat - electronics
DanceOposition Project - contemporary dance
Mikael Bayrikyan - videoart
InEnsemble:
Angelina Kokoreva - flute
Anna Antropova - voice
16/01/2019, Rostov-on-Don
Theatre 18+ / MAKARONKA Art Centre
SELEKHOV & Papa Srapa - Live in 18+ Theatre, Makaronka art-center
09/05/2015 Rostov-on-Don, Russia
Musicians: Edward Srapionov (PapaSrapa), Sasha Samokat, Pavel Astakhov, Alexey Tokarev, Mikhail Nikulin
Camera operators: Nikita Nesterenko, Olga Bondareva, Nadezhda Khatskevich
Sound Engineer: Vladimir Kondratiev
Special thanks to: Yuri Arefyev, Dmitry Sito, Maxim Berezin, Valentina Krylova
Zaum Tractor - excerpts - 2 min
Sonia Leber and David Chesworth
Zaum Tractor, 2013
2 channel HD video, 26 minutes
Zaum Tractor is a 2-screen video work filmed throughout Southern Russia as part of the artists’ 3-month residency in Rostov-on-Don. Zaum Tractor addresses notions of freedom and collectivity - contradictory forces within contemporary Russia - sweeping past tractor races, church bells, river barges and the religious and military ceremonies of modern-day cossacks.
Throughout, a series of individuals perform zaum, the experimental performance poetry of the Russian Futurists that avoids fixed meanings to reveal the pure sound and wild rhythms of language. One hundred years after its invention, zaum is performed here in front of symbolic Constructivist Soviet architecture, presenting a clash between past and present, the rational and the transrational.
Elsewhere, Leber and Chesworth reimagine Sergei Eisenstein’s 1929 film 'The General Line' with main character Marfa reinvented as a feminist, Futurist zaum convert.
What emerges is a portrait filled with parallels and oppositions, of a complex country that moves backwards as it moves forwards.
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A full project history can be found at
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Exhibitions
56th Biennale of Venice: All the World's Futures (2015); Fehily Contemporary, Melbourne (2014) and Gridchinhall Art Centre in Moscow, a parallel event of the 5th Moscow Biennale: More Light (2013).
Commissioning curator: Maria Sigutina. With sincere thanks for the invaluable participation of Olga Kalashnikova.
Supported by Australia Council for the Arts, Arts Victoria, Fehily Contemporary (Melbourne), Gridchinhall Art Centre (Moscow), Art-Amnesty Project by Olga Kalashnikova (Rostov-on-Don), Theatre 18+ (Rostov-on-Don), CreativeSpace.Pro (Rostov-on-Don) and 16thLINE Gallery (Rostov-on-Don).
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Responses
'Sonia Leber and David Chesworth revisit Russia and its tense ideological history… One [moment] comes from a sequence where beautiful young people scale the broken masonry of a ruined building. Wearing nothing but bathers, they perch precariously on ledges or beams; and every so often, one of them plunges into deep water below. Set in a pre-revolutionary warehouse, this idyll has no industrial prowess; on the contrary, it takes place where progress has failed and the human spectacle is a remnant of some ritual of heroic youth, no longer organised but random, sublime and wilfully voyeuristic. It's a portrait of a new life after ideology, beautiful, capricious and aimless.'
- Robert Nelson, 'Sonia Leber & David Chesworth's Zaum Tractor: Diving into a brave new world', The Age, Melbourne, 5 February 2014
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Now showing at 56th Biennale of Venice: All the World's Futures
9 May - 22 November 2015
Poor Liz. Russian Movie. StarMedia. Romantic Comedy. English Subtitles
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Joe Sokoloff, a sergeant with the Canadian police, travels to the remote Russia to carry out his beloved grandmother’s last wishes, but all his plans fail almost immediately on arriving in his historic homeland, when he is robbed while traveling on the train.
A 30-year-old rodeo and country music lover ready to embrace his travelling experience, he misses his train and finds himself in a small village in Russia’s Kuban region. Viewed by the villagers as ‘an eccentric in a white Stetson’, he finds himself settling into an unfamiliar world of very strange Russians. Here the people really do drown newly-born puppies, eat the fish they catch in the river and even smack their children! But it only takes a few days before Joe begins to understand the villagers and, after accepting them into his heart, he falls in love with Liza, a beautiful local girl. But with two such different worlds colliding, can this love have any real future?
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Year of production: 2013
Duration: 90 minutes
Directed by: Aleksey Lisovets
Written by: Elena Zueva, Leonora Paschenko
Production designer: Aleksandr Yakimov
Director of photography: Vasiliy Borodin
Composers: Vladimir Kripak, Maksim Velichko
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TERRA in Molly Wobbly's TIT FACTORY SHOW Hackney Empire Theatre!
TERRA in Theatre!
TERRA has donated its BSL Interpreter to Hackney Empire Theatre for the show 'Molly Wobbly's TIT FACTORY'. We aim to give more accessible entertainment to Deaf audiences so they can enjoy theatre with BSL translations by BSL interpreters.
'Molly Wobbly's TIT FACTORY's story is about the small town, which used to have a factory making bottles and selling water from a spring. Unfortunately the idea didn't work and the factory closed down for many years. The population moved out and there are 6 people left. The story is about these people who are still living there. They are 3 couples.
They are living there for long time and they see what has happened to the town. The play starts with all the clocks stopping and people wondering what is happening. They find out that the church has been sold. They also see a green-haired man who starts affecting the town and the people living there with ideas to make the people more beautiful.
The play is a musical with some funny songs and great humour. It has been performed in Belfast (in Ireland) and at the Edinburgh Festival. It is now performing in London.
Please come to see the show on Thursday 26th September 2013 at 7:30pm at the Hackney Empire theatre.
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[9БЛОК] - Разогрев у группы ONYX (Russia, Samara, Zvezda club) 2
Devil MC [9BLOK] feat. Franky Rappbit
20/02/2014 (02/20/2014)
Preheating funs before ONYX band performance in Samara
Confession of a samurai (Russian-Japanese movie)
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An Orthodox priest, Father Nikolay, the brother of a Yakuza boss, is drawn into in a mob war in Japan. He escapes to the small Russian village of Glubokoe, where he finds that war has found him again. (more information on:
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Captain Nikolay Markin makes his way to the strict regime colony somewhere in Siberia. But he never gets there, because on a halfway, he sees the prisoner Dmitry Voronkov escaping. Without any hesitation, the officer rushes to chase the escapee. Unlike the prisoner who is apparently prepared for the escape, Nikolay has no map, no food, and no weapons.
Two friends who became bitter enemies because of a woman... A runaway prisoner and an officer, who protect each other, “back to back”... A man who killed his brother for the profit... The fate will weave these people’s lives into a tight knot of mystery, which will appear not to be the only one. And the person who will be able to unravel it, will have to stake his all…
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STILLIFE In Memory (Official Video)
Filmed at various locations of Rostov-on-Don, Moscow & Frankfurt. / Camera by Stan_I., Danila Bespalov, Vadim Epstein, Anna Afonskaya. / Directed & produced by Vadim Epstein, © 2005.
Таир Мамедов - почему он эмигрировал из России (English subs)
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Плюс-минус 10 лет назад Таир Мамедов был резидентом Comedy Club, участвовал в Последнем герое, вел Каникулы в Мексике и 12 злобных зрителей. Потом он работал наблюдателем на выборах мэра Москвы и почти сразу после этого эмигрировал в США. Мы приехали к нему в Лос-Анджелес и спросили: как так получилось?
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Pavel Gubarev Ukraine Rebel Leader Injured in Shooting : A top rebel politician in eastern Ukraine, Pavel Gubarev, is unconscious in hospital after gunmen fired at his car and it crashed into a pillar, Russian media report. Sources in Mr Gubarev's pro-Russian Novorossiya movement said his car was attacked in the Donetsk region, en route from Rostov-on-Don in Russia. He is now in a Rostov hospital. Reports say fellow rebels in the car at the time were not injured. Rebels hold a large part of the region. Few details about the attack on Mr Gubarev's car were given in the reports.
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Война и мир (HD) фильм 3 - 1812 год (исторический, реж.Сергей Бондарчук, 1967 г.)
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Оскароносный триумф советского кино, легендарная экранизация одноименного романа Льва Николаевича Толстого Война и мир (1967 г.).
- Большой золотой приз Бондарчуку С.Ф. на IV МКФ, Москва (1965);
- Главный приз «Золотая голова Паленке» и Диплом на VIII смотре фестивальных фильмов в Акапулько (Мексика) (1965); - Почетный диплом Бондарчуку С.Ф. на XXVI МКФ, Венеция (1965);
- Почетный приз за сложные движения киноаппарата при съемке и диплом нему на V Международном техническом конкурсе фильмов VII конгресса УНИАТЕК в Праге (Чехословакия) (1966);
- Высший приз «Жемчужина» за лучший фильм на Конкурсе Японской Ассоциации любителей кино «Роэй» (1966);
- Оскар Американской академией киноискусств в Лос-Анжелесе (США) за лучший иностранный фильм 1968 г. (1969);
- Первый приз лучшему иностранному фильму за 1968г. от Нью-Йоркской Ассоциации кинокритиков (США) (1969);
- Премия за 1968г. лучшему фильму не на английском языке от Ассоциации иностранной прессы Голливуда (США) (1969);
- Диплом участия на IX МКФ в Дели (Индия) (1983)
Фильм 1-й, серия 1
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Фильм 1-й, серия 2
Фильм 2-й Наташа Ростова
Фильм 3-й 1812 год
Фильм 4-й Пьер Безухов
Режиссер: Бондарчук Сергей Фёдорович
Сценаристы: Бондарчук Сергей Фёдорович, Соловьев Василий
Композитор: Овчинников Вячеслав
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Донбасс сегодня Фильм
Объединённая версия документального фильма Донбасс сегодня.
Это документальный фильм продюссерского центра Лебединский, авторство идеи которого принадлежит политику и общественному деятелю Николаю Паялину из Санкт-Петербурга. Основа фильма - интервью: расказы непосредственных участников драматических событий : жителей и детей города Донецк, бойцов армии Донецкой народной республики, общественных деятелей и гостей из России.
Цель фильма не оценка или желание обозначить политическую позицию. Произведение подводит итог того, что есть сейчас.
Его герои простые люди, которые населяют город, и, конечно, сам Донецк, жемчужина Донбасса.
Фильм состоит из трех частей в которых отражена краткая история конфликта.
Первая часть называется Война.
В ней говорится о том, что до войны Донбасс был крупным промышленным центром Украины. Исправно наполнял казну своей страны налоговыми отчислениями и ни о какой независимости не задумывался. На его территории функционировал развитый промышленный кластер из угольной и металлургической промышленности. Действовали заводы и фабрики. Край обладал высоким промышленным и человеческим потенциалом. События на майдане и фактическая изоляция края от общественной и политической жизни со стороны Украины привели к тому что эта часть страны приняла решение отделиться.
Первая серия фильма начинается с кадров весеннего Донецка. Жемчужины Донбасса. Города, который горожане с любовью называют городом миллиона роз. Они растут там повсюду.
Но у роз есть шипы. В городе, где на каждом углу работают кафе и рестораны, бьют фонтаны, гуляют молодые пары, пятый год идет война, о которой напоминает только комендантский час. Однако в нескольких километрах от цветущего европейского города, прямо по его населенным окраинам проходит линия фронта, кадры из которой на жестком контрасте врезаются в сердце каждого зрителя. Интервью жителей села Веселое, где не осталось ни одного целого дома, бывших ополченцев и тех кто не брал в руки оружие. Кадры расстрелянных домов в населенном пункт, где осталось только десять процентов от его населения, тех, кому некуда было уйти. Все это контрастирует с весенним Донецком и создает картину нереальности, бессмысленности происходящего.
Параллельно, нарезкой идут интервью жителей города, которые отражают широкий спектр мнений относительно его возможного будущего. От обьединения с Россией или Украиной до самостоятельного существования.
Заканчивается первая часть описанием оперативной обстановке на фронте и интервью прямо в окопах представителей армии ДНР, полевого командира, полковника с позывным ''Шахтер'' и руководителя пресс-службы армии ДНР с позывным ''Гудвин''. Их мнение отражает официальную позицию руководства страны: назад в Украину дороги нам нет. Здесь русская земля, последний край обороны России, и соловьи здесь будут петь только по русски.
Вторая часть произведения, Судьбы, практически целиком построена на интервью жителей Донбасса. Что называется ,,Иди и смотри''. Начинается серия со сьемки музея обороны Донбасса, края давней воинской славы, где руководитель музея демонстрирует экспозицию воинской славы края. И опять сердце режут интервью уже участников политического, мирного сопротивления, пострадавших от украинской администрации. Слова жертв произвола. Пытки. Репрессии. Зрителю сложно сдержать слезы. В части использованы кадры видеозаписей реальных событий. Словами не передать. Нужно видеть глаза этих людей. Испытать сопереживание. Мы показывали этот фильм разным людям. Женщины не могут сдержать слез. Реакция мужчин схожа с паузой, которая появилась в словах персонажа фильма - ветерана Афганской войны, когда тот рассказывал о своем допросе в СБУ . Комок в горле.
В этой части из свидетельских описаний складывается картина подавления украинской властью народных выступлений в Мариуполе, в котором 96 процентов населения проголосовали на референдуме за создание отдельной от Украины Донецкой народной республики. Эти люди не производят впечатление сломленных. От них исходит ощущение силы. Они живут так как хотели бы жить. Эта часть завершается словами надежды на подрастающее поколение.
Третья серия - Мост детства. В ней съемочная группа рассказывает о мероприятиях на день защиты детей в городе о котором ходит столько мифов. Контраст и здесь. Как все в этом фильме. Съемки позитивной, неумирающей надежды на фоне страшного, незабываемого горя. Это уникальные кадры. Детский праздник в воюющем городе, парк с контактным зоопарком, детским хороводом с песнями и веселыми клоунами. И Аллея ангелов. Плита с именами погибших детей на которой закончилось место. Памятник погибшему мальчику, который закрыл собой свою сестру. Интервью детей, чьи семьи попали в жернова войны. Заканчивается фильм на позитивной ноте надежды на будущее вместе с Россией.
Завершают фильм кадры окончания праздника в местных традициях: ночного запуска тысяч воздушных фонариков в небо Донецка.
Why I removed my breast implants | My Plastic Surgery Story
I'm back! so, here's my story...
What I had done to my chest:
Boob job #1
Over the muscle saline filled implants
400 cc and 425 cc
Lolipop lift
Corrective procedure 1.5: Capsulectomy on left breast
Boob job #2
Saline filled textured implants put in under the muscle with 290 cc's and 300cc's
anchor lift
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explant/breast implant removal, capsulectomy and no lift.
There is an amazing alternative to having plastic implants put in, that will fill out your chest if you want to increase your breast size or even them out (although, uneven boobs are perfectly normal you guys!!) . Look into fat transfer to breast which is a procedure where fat is harvested through liposuction from an area you don't want or need it (love handles, thighs etc..) and placed into your breasts. This is the same procedure Kim Kardashian has done multiple times, on her bum. It can look very natural and it's a much much healthier way to change your appearance.
As for the ladies who are un happy with sagging in their breasts, a breast lift can (and should) be performed without implants and even though you don't lose or gain breast tissue- I am SO happy after having my 2nd breast lift (an anchor lift, with much more scarring). It makes the world of a difference! I hope this helps, follow me on snapchat for more info!
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Жучок.The Bug. 24k
directors: Alla Pasikova, Andrey RzhanovАлла Пасикова, Андрей Ржанов
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00:06:32 1 Etymology
00:08:41 2 History
00:08:51 2.1 Early history
00:10:56 2.2 Kievan Rus'
00:14:52 2.3 Grand Duchy of Moscow
00:17:32 2.4 Tsardom of Russia
00:22:40 2.5 Imperial Russia
00:29:11 2.6 February Revolution and Russian Republic
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00:37:29 2.8.1 World War II
00:41:28 2.8.2 Cold War
00:46:28 2.9 Russian Federation
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- Socrates
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Russia (Russian: Росси́я, tr. Rossiya, IPA: [rɐˈsʲijə]), officially the Russian Federation (Russian: Росси́йская Федера́ция, tr. Rossiyskaya Federatsiya, IPA: [rɐˈsʲijskəjə fʲɪdʲɪˈratsɨjə]), is a country in Eurasia. At 17,125,200 square kilometres (6,612,100 sq mi), Russia is the largest country in the world by area, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area, and the ninth most populous, with about 144.5 million people as of 2018, excluding Crimea. About 77% of the population live in the western, European part of the country. Russia's capital, Moscow, is the largest metropolitan area in Europe proper and one of the largest cities in the world; other major cities include Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg and Nizhny Novgorod. Extending across the entirety of Northern Asia and much of Eastern Europe, Russia spans eleven time zones and incorporates a wide range of environments and landforms. From northwest to southeast, Russia shares land borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland (both with Kaliningrad Oblast), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia and North Korea. It shares maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk and the U.S. state of Alaska across the Bering Strait. However, Russia recognises two more countries that border it, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, both of which are internationally recognized as parts of Georgia.
The East Slavs emerged as a recognizable group in Europe between the 3rd and 8th centuries AD. Founded and ruled by a Varangian warrior elite and their descendants, the medieval state of Rus arose in the 9th century. In 988 it adopted Orthodox Christianity from the Byzantine Empire, beginning the synthesis of Byzantine and Slavic cultures that defined Russian culture for the next millennium. Rus' ultimately disintegrated into a number of smaller states; most of the Rus' lands were overrun by the Mongol invasion and became tributaries of the nomadic Golden Horde in the 13th century. The Grand Duchy of Moscow gradually reunified the surrounding Russian principalities, achieved independence from the Golden Horde. By the 18th century, the nation had greatly expanded through conquest, annexation, and exploration to become the Russian Empire, which was the third largest empire in history, stretching from Poland on the west to Alaska on th ...