Kyiv Frescoes
- measured
- surreal
- signature
Neutral, measured, measured arthouse / experimental, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →Parajanov's collage of all the footage that remained from his film "Kyiv Frescoes," which was halted by the Soviet authorities who demanded that all the negatives be destroyed.
Our read · Kyiv Frescoes (1966) reads as a neutral, measured, surreal arthouse · experimental · short entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
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The shape of Kyiv Frescoes
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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