Moscow International Experimental Film Festival opens today

The Moscow International Experimental Film Festival (MIEFF) opens today, bringing a diverse competition programme and a range of exciting accompanying events to the city’s Stanislavsky Electric Theatre.

Now in its second edition, this year’s MIEFF features retrospectives of acclaimed international filmmakers, special screenings, Q&A sessions, lectures and audio-visual performances.

The opening night is dedicated to the history of experimental cinema, with a special screening of EXPRMNTL (2016) by Belgian director Brecht Debackere. This film traces how the Belgian coastal town of Knokke came to host one of the most significant events in the history of experimental and avant-garde cinema.

Also must-sees will be a retrospective of work by Russian experimental film director Vladimir Kobrin (d.1999), who specialised in sci-fi and educational pictures and is best known for such works as The Last Dream of Anatoly Vasilyevich (1990), and the lecture-performance Chronic Film by artist, researcher and filmmaker Alex Anikina. In addition, Dutch artist Esther Urlus will collaborate with Moscow-based sound artist Philipp Ilinskiy for multidisciplinary performance Expanded Cinema.

The Moscow International Experimental Film Festival opens today and will run until 23 July. Find out more and buy tickets here.