Cine Fantom
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Cine Fantom is a film club in Russia
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The name and the history of the club comes from the samizdat
handwritten magazine CINE FANTOM issued by Igor Aleinikov and his brother Gleb Aleinikov since 1985. Olia Lialina
, 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
at this time. CINE FANTOM was associated with the Soviet cinema underground, 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
.
The 35th International Film Festival Rotterdam hosted a large program "Days of CINE FANTOM Club”. The 17th Kinotavr
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.
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
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The name and the history of the club comes from the samizdat
Samizdat
Samizdat was a key form of dissident activity across the Soviet bloc in which individuals reproduced censored publications by hand and passed the documents from reader to reader...
handwritten magazine CINE FANTOM issued by Igor Aleinikov and his brother Gleb Aleinikov since 1985. Olia Lialina
Olia Lialina
Olia Lialina is a pioneer Internet artist and theorist as well as an experimental film and video critic and curator...
, 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
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
at this time. CINE FANTOM was associated with the Soviet cinema underground, 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
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
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The 35th International Film Festival Rotterdam hosted a large program "Days of CINE FANTOM Club”. The 17th Kinotavr
Kinotavr
Kinotavr , also known as Sochi Open Russian Film Festival is an open film festival carried out in the resort city of Sochi, Russia annually in June since 1991...
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.