Cine Fantom is a film club in
Russia
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.
The name and the history of the club comes from the ''
samizdat
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'' handwritten magazine ''CINE FANTOM'' issued by
Igor Aleinikov and his brother Gleb Aleinikov since 1985.
Olia Lialina
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, one of the original founders, was later a director. It was dedicated to history and theory of cinema. It had no officials analogs in the
Soviet Union
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at this time. CINE FANTOM was associated with the Soviet cinema underground,
Parallel Cinema
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Inspired by Italian Neorealism, Parallel Cinema ...
(''Parallelnoe Kino'').
The club was established in 1995 based at the
Moscow Cinema Museum. Since 2004, it has been based at
Fitil Cinema,
Moscow
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.
The 35th
International Film Festival Rotterdam
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) is an annual film festival held at the end of January in various locations in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Since its foundation in 1972, it has maintained a focus on independent and experimental f ...
hosted a large program "Days of the CINE FANTOM Club”. The 17th
Kinotavr
Kinotavr (russian: Кинотавр), also known as the Sochi Open Russian Film Festival is an open film festival held in the resort town, resort city of Sochi, Russia annually in June since 1991, until it was cancelled in the wake of the 2022 Ru ...
hosted the Club program as well.
Cine Fantom Club programs have been screened at the Grenz Land Filmtage (Selb, 1995), the European Media Art Fest (Osnabruck, 1998), the Cottbus Film Festival (1995). In January 1999, works of the Cine Fantom Club were screened at the Anthology Film Archives in New York as part of an extensive program, Recent Russian Experimental Films.
"New Russian Experimental Shorts: Cine Fantom Club"
Russian Film Symposium (May 1999)
From 2017 Cine Fantom Club based in Electrotheatre Stanislavsky
The Stanislavsky Electrotheatre (russian: Электротеатр Станиславский), known from 1948 to 2013 as the Stanislavsky Drama Theatre, and from 1946 to 1948 as the Stanislavsky Opera and Drama Theatre, is a theatre in Moscow. I ...
References
*https://web.archive.org/web/20070218064915/http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2004/09/10/105.html
External links
Cine Fantom website
Film organizations in Russia
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