Screening of films “Letters from Siberia” and «ТАРЫҤ»

Pushkin House, in collaboration with the 17th Native Spirit Film Festival, will hold a double screening of films dedicated to the culture and history of the Sakha Republic, the indigenous population of Siberia, in particular, and residents of Yakutsk, which is considered the coldest city on the planet.

French director Chris Marker made a trip there in the 1950s, which resulted in the film “Letters from Siberia”. In it, his personal ethnographic observations are combined with poetry and political analysis.

The second film «ТАРЫҤ» became a kind of response of Yakut Svetlana Romanova to the French Marker, which she shot with the help of fellow director Chelsea Tuggle. The work, whose title literally translates as “The Season of Dying Water”, shows the life of Yakutsk, in which traditions are combined with youth subcultures, against the background of colonial and capitalist violence.

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