From September 25 to October 4, the 28th Moscow International Festival of Archival Films (28 MMFAF) will be held at the «Illusion» cinema. Students and alumni from the Contemporary Music and Sound Art program at the HSE Art and Design School were invited to provide live sound accompaniment for films in the «The Female Role: Pre-Revolutionary Cinema Actresses» section.
On Sunday, September 27th, there will be a double screening of two silent, pre-revolutionary films—"Behind the Living Room Door» (1913) and «Sacrifice of Tverskaya Boulevard (The Story of One Fall)» (1915) from the «Dark Moscow» series. The films will feature a soundscape created by Alexander Fomin—an interdisciplinary artist, sound designer, and producer who is a student at the HSE Art and Design School. He works under the pseudonyms «Sasha of Russia» and «Sasha, „. Alexander’s compositions are characterized by a complex texture, where sound fragments can either smoothly complement each other or clash, unexpectedly rewinding like a tape effect.
To learn more about the films and register for a screening, please visit the «Illusion» website.
On Tuesday, September 29, two rare silent films, «Satan Married Them» and «Comrade Elena (Elena Chernetskaya)» from 1917, will be screened.The duo will present their vision for the sound accompaniment to these films:Konstantin Sidorov (alias Bellyband)—a musician and enthusiast in magnetic tape manipulation, a graduate of the Sound Art and Sound Design program at the HSE Art and Design School. In his work, he explores the theme of synthesizing analog and digital sound, and in his live performances, he uses digitized, processed samples from old recordings integrated into modern software environments and sequencers.Savely Krylov—a musician and songwriter for the band Kaliostro. In his work, he employs the aesthetics of analog sound, using a DIY approach to create complex textures and a darkly melancholic atmosphere in his pieces.
