The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced the lineup for the sixth Art of the Real featuring a vibrant slate of nonfiction and hybrid films by internationally acclaimed filmmakers and impressive, award-winning debuts from around the world.
Karelia: International with Monument (Carelia: Internacional con Monumento)(2019)
Karelia: International with Monument (Carelia: Internacional con Monumento)(2019)
NAME OF FILM: KARELIA: INTERNATIONAL WITH MONUMENT (CARELIA, INTERNACIONAL CON MONUMENTO)
DIRECTOR(S): Andrés Duque
STARRING: N/A
GENRE: Documentary Film
SYNOPSIS: Karelia: International with Monument explores the mysterious forests of a remote territory on the Finnish-Russian border, an idyllic setting where shamanic magic and the historical trauma of Stalin’s purges intersect. With his expressive, inquisitive camerawork and a deliriously idiosyncratic approach to montage, Andrés Duque (Oleg and the Rare Arts, Art of the Real 2016) observes local customs, plays with children in the woods, and follows the fraught efforts to commemorate the purges’ forgotten victims, creating a wild, hallucinatory portrait of a place that still bears the traces of ancient folkloric custom—and the wounds of the past.