{"id":6847,"date":"2025-05-18T23:59:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T21:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unarchivefest.it\/?post_type=portfolio&p=6847"},"modified":"2025-05-21T12:01:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T10:01:39","slug":"out-of-the-present","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/unarchivefest.it\/en\/eventi\/out-of-the-present\/","title":{"rendered":"Out of the Present"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row row_height_percent=”0″ overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ column_width_percent=”100″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ uncode_shortcode_id=”115430″][vc_column width=”1\/1″][vc_single_image media=”6849″ media_width_percent=”100″ uncode_shortcode_id=”339935″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_height_percent=”0″ override_padding=”yes” h_padding=”2″ top_padding=”0″ bottom_padding=”2″ overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ column_width_percent=”100″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ uncode_shortcode_id=”160219″][vc_column column_width_percent=”100″ gutter_size=”0″ overlay_alpha=”50″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ width=”2\/3″ uncode_shortcode_id=”142595″][vc_custom_heading uncode_shortcode_id=”210070″]<\/p>\n

Special screenings – Andrei Ujic\u0103<\/h6>\n

[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_custom_heading auto_text=”yes” text_color=”accent” uncode_shortcode_id=”174660″ text_color_type=”uncode-palette”][\/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”173857″]Andrei Ujic\u0103 \/ Germany, Russia, France, Belgium \/ 96\u2019 \/ 1995[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space empty_h=”2″][vc_separator sep_color=”color-wvjs” type=”dotted” uncode_shortcode_id=”202264″ sep_color_type=”uncode-palette” el_height=”10″][vc_empty_space empty_h=”1″][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”588843″]In August 1991, tanks advance toward the White House in Moscow, seat of government of the Russian Soviet Republic. Although the coup fails, the Soviet Union rapidly dissolves in the following months. Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev is not present when it happens: he had left for the Mir space station in May when he returned 10 months later, landing in Russia.
\nFor his film about the last Soviet cosmonaut, Andrei Ujic\u0103 drew on footage shot during the mission, to which he added fictional commentary. He also sent a 35 mm camera to the Russian space station. He asked cinematographer Vadim Yusov-in homage to his camera work in Tarkovski’s film Solaris<\/em> to prepare the filming process and coordinate it from mission control on Earth, thus creating the first purely cinematic images shot in space. These long shots of Mir’s space orbit contrast with the short, chaotic shots of rapid changes on Earth, providing the backdrop for Krikalev’s sobering comment, “For a cosmonaut, the speed with which day and night and seasons fly by is most impressive.”[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space empty_h=”2″][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”120782”]Written by Andrei Ujic\u0103
\nCinematography by Vadim Jusov.
\nMusic by Ralf Henninger, Heidi Leihbecher, Svetlana Ivanova
\nInterviews with Sergei Krikal\u00ebv, Anatolij Arcebarskij, Aleksandr Volkov
\nProduced by Elke Peters
\nfor Bremer Institut Film\/Fernsehen, WDR, La Sept\/Arte, RTBF, St. Petersburg Documentary Film Studio, Harun Farocki Filmproduktion, Loy Arnold Filmproduktion.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space empty_h=”3″][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”160671″]Andrei Ujic\u0103
\n<\/strong>Andrei Ujic\u0103 was born on November 13, 1951, in Timi\u0219oara, Romania. With a background in literature, Ujic\u0103 decided in 1990 to devote himself to filmmaking and made his debut with <\/span>Videograms of a Revolution<\/span><\/i> (1992), co-directed with Harun Farocki, which became a landmark film about the relationship between political power and the media in Europe at the end of the Cold War. His second film, <\/span>Out of the Present<\/span><\/i> (1995), tells the story of cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, who spent ten months aboard the Mir space station while on Earth the Soviet Union ceased to exist. <\/span>Out of the Present<\/span><\/i> has been compared to such iconic titles in film history as <\/span>2001: A Space Odyssey<\/span><\/i> o <\/span>Solaris<\/span><\/i>, and is famous for being one of the most recognized documentary films of the 1990s. <\/span>The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceau\u0219escu<\/span><\/i> (2010), widely considered a monumental achievement, concludes his trilogy dedicated to the end of communism. Andrei Ujic\u0103 also made two commissioned works for the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain: <\/span>2 Pasolini<\/span><\/i> (short film, 2000\/2021) and <\/span>Unknown Quantity<\/span><\/i>, with Paul Virilio and Svetlana Alexievitch.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space empty_h=”2″][\/vc_column][vc_column column_width_percent=”100″ gutter_size=”1″ overlay_alpha=”50″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ width=”1\/3″ uncode_shortcode_id=”207555″][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”592490″]<\/p>\n

May <\/span><\/strong>28
\n<\/span><\/strong>6:00 pm.<\/span><\/strong>
\nCinema Intrastevere – <\/span><\/strong>Sala 2<\/strong>
\nQ&A with the author<\/strong>
\n<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

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