\nat the ICA, London, Cinema 1. Hosted by Helen de Witt, British Film Institute,
\nHead of Cinemas. The DVD will be on sale for a special discount price of \u00a315.<\/p>\n
Perestroika: Reconstructed is a ghost story that combines\u00a0the genres of documentary, essay film and film poem.\u00a0\u00a0Part psychogeography, part dream and part environmental allegory, the film explores the process of memory: both\u00a0what\u00a0we forget and\u00a0how\u00a0we remember. Sequence one constitutes the 2009 version of the film, whilst the second sequence constructs a new framing narrative that reinterprets and reconfigures both the imagery and the experience of the first.<\/p>\n
Limited to views from the window of the Trans-Siberian train, both sequences of\u00a0Perestroika: Reconstructed<\/i>\u00a0conclude at Lake Baikal, the world’s deepest lake, contrasting experiences of terror and apocalypse with those of beauty and tranquillity, the one contaminating the other. In this uncanny return, the instability of the environment is twinned with the instability of memory.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n ‘A ruined hotel. A lake as big as a sea. And a death, never explained but by now as momentous to us, and as engulfing, as a black hole. What begins as a travelogue with philosophical trimmings turns into a puzzle picture worthy of Resnais or Antonioni.’ ‘Elegantly photographed, sound- designed to precise and goose- bumping effect, this is a rare and haunting work of memory-gleaning.’ ‘Conceived with intelligence and arresting intensity’ LUX Special Screening:<\/b> Book to attend the screening:<\/b> LUX DVD\/BluRay Release:<\/b> Purchase the DVD\/BluRay:<\/b> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sarah Turner has been invited to the ICA London for a special screening to launch the LUX DVD\/BluRay of both films \u2018Perestroika\u2019 and \u2018Perestroika : Reconstructed\u2019, followed by a questions and answers session. The screening is open to all, to be held this coming Sunday, 2nd March at the ICA, London, Cinema 1. Hosted by … Continue reading Special Screening of Perestroika: Reconstructed by Director Sarah Turner at the ICA, March 2nd<\/span> ![\"P123_stiched_Perestroika\"](\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/files\/2014\/02\/P123_stiched_Perestroika.jpg\")
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\nNigel Andrews, Financial Times<\/i><\/p>\n
\nSukdev Sandhu, The Telegraph<\/i><\/p>\n
\nPeter Bradshaw, The Guardian <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nSunday, 2nd<\/sup> March
\n13.30
\nCinema 1, ICA London
\n\u00a38-\u00a310
\nLUX Publication Page<\/a>
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\nICA, London<\/a><\/p>\n
\n2 Disc Dual Format DVD\/Blu Ray
\nDVD 9 PAL Region 0\/ BD 50 Region 0
\nPerestroika, 2009, 118 mins
\nPerestroika: Reconstructed 2013, 178 mins
\nPlus new essays by Elizabeth Cowie, Sophie Mayer, and Paul Newland
\nPublished by LUX
\nPrice \u00a322 individuals \/ \u00a360 institutions<\/p>\n
\nLUX, Artist\u2019s Moving Image<\/a>
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