The World of Velimir Khlebnikov

Misjavichus, D. Chulakhina, Ju. Olshvang, L. Shevchenko, at alias. 1985.

This film is devoted to the 100th anniversary of Velimir Khlebnikov. Andrej Voznesenski, Evgenij Jevtushenko read Khlebnikov’s poems. Philologists Viktor Shklovski, Vjacheslav Ivanov tell about Khlebnikov.

In Russian

Director: G. Okan, 1990.

Lebedia is an ancient legend land. According to Khlebnikov, it was situated between great Russian rivers Volga and Don. The film tells about Khlebnikov’s life and creatures.

in Russian

Director: Jelena Sakanjan, 1992

In his main work “The Tables of Destiny” Khlebnikov elaborated a cosmology in which all phenomena subject to time unfold according to mathematical regularities, which he thought he had discovered. The film authors extended his conclusions to the late XXth century.

in Russian

Director: Jelena Sakanjan, 1994

The film is a continuation of the previous one.

in Russian

Director: Alla Sidorenko, 1995

Velimir Khlebnikov museum was opened in Astrakhan (the south part of Russia, near Caspian Sea), the poet native town.

in Russian

This film describes the fate of four prominent figures in the Russian Avant-Garde: the art historian and ideologist of the Avan-Garde Nikolai Punin and the artists Kazimir Malevich, Pavel Filonov and Vladimir Tatlin. The film is about art hidden for fifty long years behind the iron door of a museum stockroom in the time when Stalin ruled supreme.

in Russian

Director: Jeugenij Potievski, 2004

The Scratch on the Sky is the title of one of the Khlebnikov’s longer poems. The film describes Khlebnikov’s life, includes his poetry and drawings.

in Russian

“Death of Mrs. Lenin”
based on dramatic text “Mrs. Lenin” by Velimir Khlebnikov idea, script, acting and directing: Milica Lapcevic and Vladimir Sojat (credited as Lilie Ewgraphovitch and Maximilian von Dada) camera by Dragan Lapcevic
duration: 8’00”
year of production: 1989
film format: 16mm

in English