The Institute of Documentary Film and Prague Civil Society Centre invite you to the screening of Maxim Shved's Pure Art. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Belarusian documentary filmmakers Maxim Shved and Ihar Chyshchenia, as well as presentation of clips from the upcoming film about the current situation in Belarus. Moderated by producer and film director Filip Remunda.
The film will be screened with English and Czech subtitles. The event is part of the month in support of Belarusian freedom.
Pure Art / Czysta Sztuka
A mysterious artist appears in different districts of Minsk. He spreads his canvass and begins to paint. He creates puzzling geometric figures, rectangles and squares… The streets are alive. Curious passers-by spontaneously approach the painter and ask him questions about his work. The man never reveals what he is actually painting – he just replies with a question. He asks them what they see on the canvas. Step by step we get to know the artist better. He is Zahar Kudin, one of the most promising Belarusian painters. What is the artist painting? What is the mystery behind the mysterious rectangles and squares? The explanation will be a great surprise… It is a film about contemporary Belarus shown from a new fresh perspective. It reveals the secret of the „last dictatorship of Europe”.
Directed by: Maxim Šved
Poland, Belarus
52 minutes, 2019
With CZech and English subtitles.
Presented by Institut dokumentárního filmu and Prague Civil Society Centre as part of The month in support of Belarusian freedom.