The Black Square.

The Black Square. , 1988 (56:53)

Annotation: The film presents the history of the Soviet avant-garde art since 1957.

Film description: 1-6. Contemporary artists Dybsky, Zhutovski, Kabakov, Steinberg speculate about the future of art, examining the relationship of art and power in the USSR. Presents the work of Malevich, Zvereva and others representatives of the Russian Silver Age.

Source description 1: Pass people (withdrawn Rapida, through the Aquarium).
The picture of Malevich's Black Square ", etc.
The berth is the gramophone, mourners waving their hands, the ship sailed.
Artists of the club "Avant-gardists" photographed on the deck.
May declare a meeting the river station, the deck of the ship.
Artists talk about avant-garde art (synchronously).
Floating passenger ship.
Poster Exhibition Hermitage Association.
Visitors to the exhibition.
Eskpozitsiya exhibition - paintings artists Steinberg, Belenko, Yankylevsky, Prigov.
Yakovlev painting "Portrait of Pasternak.
The audience at the figures from the iron, the design of metal pipes.
The construction of twigs artist Infante.
Paintings Steinberg: "In memory of Malevich," "Anis", "Fisa from the city of Semenov and others
Interview Artist E. Steinberg (sinhr.).
Painting artist Bruskin (multi-figure composition).
Soloist rock group "Nautilus Pompilius" V. Butusov singing
"Birds of a Feather" (synchronous).
[_] Newsreel 1930th years.: Stalin, Molotov and others are held on the territory of the Kremlin,
passes Kalinin.
Day demonstration in Red Square: go fizkultu rniki,
orchestra, have a portrait of Stalin, models. Sculptures discus, plovichhi etc.

Source description 2: Newsreel 1930-1940gg. : Painting artist Bibikova "Greetings to the winners",
painting "What is wheat" artist Kuchkina,
painting by V. Efanova "Unforgettable".
People in the exhibition, those boys and girls.
The parade of athletes, the girls laugh, sing.
[_] Sings V. Butusov (synchronously)
Brusnikina painting, paintings Zhutovski, Bulatov.
Intervyu artist Nick B. Zhutoskogo (synchronously).
[_] Newsreel 1930-1940gg.: A parade of athletes - gymnast
revolve in a wheel (Rapid, stop-frame).
[_] Artist I. Kabakov in his studio, an interview with I. Kabakov (synchronously).
Kabakov's works: paintings, the exhibition of kitchen items.
Flight of stairs in an old house on the Arbat, the mailboxes on the
door calls.
[_] Newsreel 1957. - International Exhibition of Fine and
applied in Moscow.
Customers visiting the exposition of the exhibition;
painting by the Italian artist R. Beppu "Howl" and others
Speaker president of the USSR Academy of Arts artist B. Johanson (synchronously).
[_] Krapivnitskogo painting artist, painting Yankylevsky "Derna hole;
painting Pivovarova" Learn, son "; Bulatov's paintings" The sky, the sea "," no entry ".
Interview by Krapivnitskogo and B. Yankylevsky (synchronously).

Source description 3: Newsreel 1960: Moscow, high-rise building, passing cars.
Visitors to the jubilee exhibition devoted 30 years of work
Moscow artists.
Khrushchev and other members of the government in the exhibition see pictures,
talk with the artist Nikonov.
Faloka painting "Nude" painting Nikonov, geologists and others
Nikonov at the exhibition.
[_] Wife artist Yu Sooster Lydia Sooster tells her husband (synchronously).
Artist V. Yankilevsky talks about the exhibition (synchronously).
Paintings Yankylevsky.
Newsreel 1960:
The members of the government looking the sculptor E. Unknown.
[_] Photo E. Unknown.
Bust Khrushchev of E. Unknown.
Khrushchev's grave at Novodevichy Cemetery.
Painting artist Yuri Sobolev.
Interview Yu Sobolev (synchronously).
Newsreel 1960:
Khrushchev of the floor (synchronously),
in the room making abstract paintings of artists, people in the hall
laugh and applaud.
[_] Photography artist Yu Sooster, picture graves Yu Sooster.
Paintings Sooster (multrabota - influx, close-up).
Newsreel 1960.:
Visitors are considering self-portrait of the artist B. Zhutovski.
[_] B. Zhutovski tells Khrushchev (synchronously).
Photos Khrushchev and B. Zhutovski at the exhibition.
Painting artist Ganikovskogo "Symphony of Shostakovich.
Summer landscapes - woods, fields, kokokolnya.
The building of the former monastery, which is a psychiatric
hospital.
Yakovlev artist draws, gives an interview (synchronously).
Yakovlev painting "Portrait of the Wind" and other paintings.

Source description 4: Paintings artist Vladimir Yakovlev.
Yakovlev paints, sitting on the bench, says (synchronously).
The view from the bell tower at the sign psychiatric hospital number 16.
Yakovlev is in the hospital park.
Artist V. Nemukhin tells Yakovleva (synchronously).
Sculpture V. Sidura "appealing" and others
Photo V. Sidura.
Poet Yu Moritz recalls V. Siddur (synchronously).
Book Y. Moritz.
Sidura workshop in the basement, the panorama of sculptures and compositions.
Painting artist Gryushisa.
Newsreel 1970.: Sculptural portraits of Brezhnev, MA Suslov,
A. Kirilenko. Painting "Brezhnev at the Little Earth."
¬ performs rock group "Nautilus Pompilius" (synchronously).
Painting Yankylevsky of a series of "Mutants", paintings Sooster, Nemukhin.
Photo of a young Nemukhin.
B. Nemukhin in the apartment of the artist Sooster gives interviews (synchronously).
Artists S. Bordachev and Nutovich on the street in the area Belyaevo, where
in 1974 passed the so-called "Bulldozer Exhibition".
C. Bordachev says (synchronously) on the show.
Painting Bordachev.
Photos on the exhibition: Bordachev and other artists
at an exhibition in Belyaevo; is a police car, pictures on the ground;
artists with a policeman, is watering machine.
Says E. Nutovich (synchronously).
Photo E. Nutovich.
Artists at an exhibition in Izmailovo.

Source description 5: Funeral artist Zvereva in December 1986goda.
Newsreel 1970-1980gg.: A. Zverev working on a painting, paintings Zvereva.
[_] Paintings of the artist E. Steinberg.
Interview E. Steinberg (synchronously).
Interview artist Bulatov (synchronously).
Bulatov's paintings.
Interview B. Zhutovski (synchronously), paintings, songs on the wall.
Photo of Joseph Stalin.
Painting artist Chuikova.
Playing musician-drummer Vladimir Tarasov.
Paintings "Fragments of the sea and sky, and others, written by Vladimir Tarasov.
Interview artist Chuikov (synchronously).
Hall of the exhibition of young artists.
Compositions of the foil, metal, etc.
Painting "Moloch" and other paintings.
Posters on the wall.
A sham barricade, a show on the street.
Artist K. Zvezdochetov conducts comic auction (synchronously).

Source description 6: Scope of Exhibits: posters, lamp, etc.
The abstract painting "Do not be afraid!" and others.
Foyer of the House of Culture Lamp Factory before the show premieres
film "Assa" - designs, the portrait of Leonid Brezhnev on the floor,
songs from the ceiling.
Exhibition-farce in Sanduny baths.
Artists in the pool (with distortion removed), painting.
Interview artist Prigov (synchronously).
Artists Vinogradov has hung on metal objects.
Photo by G. Vinogradov.
Artist F. Infante and his wife are on a career, set design.
F. Infante photographs; House considers slides.
Interview artist E. Dybsky (synchronously).
Paintings Dybsky, workshop.
Interview artist E. Steinberg (synchronously).
Painting Steinberg "In memory of Malevich.
Pass people (shot through the aquarium).

Directors: Pasternak I.

Operators: Golovnya V.

Script writers: Sviblova O.

Announcer: Romashin A.