What the filmic underground for the West, was parallel film for the East. Their originators: the brothers Alejnikov. The 1980s were an explosive decade in the Soviet Union – samizdat and rock music were booming, video cassettes were imported. In a situation, when hardly anyone was watching Soviet film, filming was daily practise for Igor Alejnikov like writing or playing guitar for others. Often times film was used, the sell-by date of which had expired, which was to become one of the aesthetic attributes of parallel film. As economics were run by the state at this time, the only possibility was working non-commercially, which should prove as a stroke of luck in retrospect. After his tragic death in a plane crash in 1994 his brother Gleb Alejnikov under the label CINE FANTOM developed a comprehensive body of screening- as well as production work. A treasure largely waiting to be discovered.
METASTASES [METASTAZY]
USSR 1984 Betacam SP 15 min. no dial. Experimental
TRACTORS [TRAKTORA]
USSR 1987 Betacam SP 12 min. no dial. Experimental
THE SEVERE ILLNESS OF MEN [ZHESTOKAIA BOLEZN’ MUZHCHIN]
USSR 1987 Betacam SP 10 min. no dial. Experimental
I’M COLD, SO WHAT [IA KHOLODEN, NU I CHTO]
USSR 1987 Betacam SP 15 min. Engl. OV experimental
REVOLUTIONARY SKETCH [REVOLJUCIONNYI ETIUD]
USSR 1987 Betacam SP 8 min. OV Engl. ST experimental
AMERIGA
Russia 1997 Betacam SP 55 min. OV Engl. ST experimental
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