Where and when
BY ALEXANDR SOKUROV, 2002
(o.v sot. Eng)
With the participation of
Rita Filardi, Museum of the Opera del Duomo
Natalia Parenko, St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts in Florence
Paolo Grassini, Lorenzo de ‘Medici Institute (LdM)
Presented for the first time in 2002, the film Russian Ark, directed by Alexandr Sokurov and set entirely in the Russian Hermitage museum,
it offers an excellent means of exploring how museums and history are imagined in cinema.
The appointment at the Museo Novecento is the second meeting of the Museum and Cinema Workshop organized by Marist College – Istituto Lorenzo de ‘Medici M.A.
The screening will be followed by talks in English.