Director Rezo Gigineishvili, known for the films “Heat” and “Love with an Accent,” unexpectedly made a truly adult film. “Hostages” is a cold and hard film about what people are capable of for the sake of freedom. This really happened 1983 Georgian SSR. A group of young people from wealthy families are trying to hijack a plane to escape the country.

Dmitry Kurlyandsky about the emancipation of the author If the artist is dealing with conventions, ready-made, historically determined models of writing, the question of authorship arises: does the artist paint the model, or does the model paint the artist? Having no other option, the model uses the artist for self-reproduction, the artist becomes the model's tool, her avatar. This does not negate such a parameter as the artist’s skill - the skill of handling the model.

Autumn leaves were reflected in the puddles, and I hurried to the theater. I've dreamed about this for so long. Chance encounters, colorful posters, people dancing. Opening of the 141st theater season. Audience, applause, silence... It began. 1.5 years ago I was at the premiere of the play “The Eldest Son”. That's when I first fell in love with theater. I wanted to go again this spring, but didn’t have time... “This performance has a difficult fate.” This is true.

The inspiration for the play “The Human Use of Human Beings” was Giotto’s fresco “The Raising of Lazarus.” On it, the artist depicted the moment of Christ’s prayer, which raised Lazarus from Bethany. We see that in the fresco the two outer figures covered their faces with scarves, protecting themselves from the smell of the decomposing body (“... it already stinks; for it has been four days since he has been in the grave”).

In the series "Westworld" it is quite difficult to establish any clear plot line and, in general, it is not important. All the most important gnostic-metaphysical aspects are played out there - from the eternal return to our favorite idea of ​​subjectivity, subjective identity, its loss, its correspondence to oneself, the boundaries of reality and the illusory nature of the world - all this is shown here in a very versatile way.

I began to paint pictures in which I could express the powerful and mystical feeling that opened up to me while reading Nietzsche Giorgio de Chirico Self-portrait with a bust of Mercury. 1924 Pittura metafisica (Italian: Metaphysical painting) by Giorgio de Chirico determined the turn in the worldview of many young artists, writers and poets of the 20th century.

Dance camp Fordanzo Dance Camp is one of the most significant projects in Russian dance culture. Current choreographers from Europe, the USA, Africa and Central America gather under one roof for the third time. For 6 days they will give master classes to amateurs and professionals. The Fordanzo Dance Camp festival will be held from November 1 to 6. It will bring together 15 leading choreographers of modern dance styles: dancehall, jazz-funk, hip-hop, house, twerk and others.

​ 1) Introduction If by “absolute uselessness” we mean true usefulness in the spirit of Zhuang Tzu. As in his parable about a tree growing on the edge of a cliff, twisted by the winds - absolutely useless for carpentry, but its true usefulness is that it is a metaphor for the soul - by the form of its bends and knots it shows us how beautiful our soul can become, resisting the onslaught of everyday adversity.