Low-fi sound, tonal imperfection: sensation. Elektro Moskva is an essay-like narrative
about Soviet and post-Soviet “electronic history” – from the Theremin and synthesizer to the bugging devices of the KGB.
ELEKTRO MOSKVA (Electro Moscow) is an essayistic documentary about the Soviet electronic age and its legacy. The story begins with the inventor of the world’s first electronic instrument, Leon Theremin, unveiling the KGB’s huge pile of fascinating devices, some of which were musical. They all came into existence as a by-product of a rampant defense industry. Nowadays, those aged and abandoned ‘musical coffins’, as solidly made as a Kalashnikov, are being recycled and reinterpreted by the post-Soviet generations of musicians, sound collectors and circuit benders. The story of the Soviet synthesizers as an allegory to the everyday life under the Soviet system: nothing works, but you have to make the best out of it. An electronic fairy tale about the inventive spirit of the free mind inside the iron curtain- and beyond.
Visions du Réel, Nyon 2013, FRA | Sheffield DOK Fest 2013, UK | FID Marseille 2013, FRA | New Horizons 2013, PL | Adelaide - Big Pond Film Festival 2013, AUS | Cork - IndieCork Film Festival 2013, IRL | Diagonale, Festival des österreichischen Films 2013, AT | Joensuu - Rokumentti Rock Film Festival 2013, FIN | Kaunas Int. Film Festival 2013, LTU | Köln - SoundTrack_Cologne 2013, DE | Leipzig - Int. Festival für Dok.- u. Animationsfilm 2013, DE | Paris - Festival Serendip 2013, FRA | Victoria - Antimatter Underground Film Festival 2013, CAN | Wiesbaden - exground on screen 2013, DE | Göteborg Int. Film Festival 2014, SWE | Film Festival Rotterdam 2014, NLD | Buenos Aires 14 - BAFICI Int. Independent film Festival 2014, ARG | Salem Int. Filmfestival 2014, USA | CTM Festival for Adventurous Music and Art - Berlin 2014, DE | Flatpack Festival - Birmingham 2014, UK | Sofia Int. Filmfestival 2014, BGR
in den österreichischen Kinos:
Top Kino, Wien
Programmkino Wels
Geidorf Kunstkino, Graz
Leokino, Innsbruck
Filmpodium, Biel/Bienne
(17.10.)
Actors Studio, Wien (ab 22.10.)
10.11.
Leokino, Innsbruck
in Koop. mit der Stadt Innsbruck
10.12.
Moviemento, Linz
in Koop. mit Südwind OÖ, Arcobaleno und Migrare
in den österreichischen Kinos:
Actors Studio, Wien
Top Kino, Wien
Village Cinema, Wien
Annenhof Kino, Graz
Filmcasino (17./25.10.)
Lichtspiele Lenzing (18.10.)
Filmbühne Waidhofen/Ybbs (1./2.12.)
- Bester Film
- Beste Regie
- Bestes Maskenbild
- Bester Ton/Sounddesign
- Bester Dokumentarfilm
- Bester Schnitt
Wood - Der geraubte Wald
15.10., Cinema Paradiso, Baden
20.10., Literatur im Kino, Langenlois
21.10., Cinema Paradiso, St. Pölten
24.10., Apollo Kino Stockerau
30.11., Volkskino Klagenfurt
Glory to the Queen
17./24.10., Kino Xenix, Zürich
Die Dohnal
3.11., Dieselkino, Leibnitz
The Trouble With Being Born
17.11., Filmklub Wieselburg
will be screened at
Doclisboa, PT 2021
3.00 pm, 22nd October
Swidnica Film Festival, PL 2021
24th-30th October
will be screened at
Unabhängiges FilmFest Osnabrück, DE 2021
8.00 pm, 23rd October
Hamburg International Queer Film Festival, DE 2021,
3.30 pm, 23rd October, + online
