Month: November 2016

Moscow Nov 2016

Photos from Moscow, where Margo Cargill and I attended Breaking Down Barriers Film Festival.  Margo and  Alex Bulmer won Best Actress for Awake!
Bronze statue of ancient soldiers before St. Basil's Church, Red Square
People mill around the Kermlin tower in Red Square in the snow
Snowy landscape shows a bridge, and in the distance, the Kremlin and St. Basil's Catherdral
Bronze worker statues stands above a queue of people in the snow
Display of letters and photographs, one showing Tolstoy as a young man
with Tolstoy as a young man
Handwritten manuscript in Russian, with lots of corrections
A man stands over the edge of a buidling's roof, shovelling snow
Squat white cylindrical building with rows of jewel shaped windows
Constructivist Double Cylinder House, sadly in disrepair
Team of snow shovellers in orange on city street with large buildings
Art Nouveau style exterior of Moscow Art Theatre
Home to Chekhov, Stanislavsky and many others!
Moscow Art Theatre
Exterior of Starbucks with sign in Cyrillic
Welcome to capitalism!
Absndoned concrete Soviet era office building with smashed windows
Part of a grafittied wall with a torn poster over a broken window
Soviet era office building with crowd at entrance
Bare trees stand in front of onion domed churches in a snowy landscape with a man in the foreground
Charcoal drawings and handwriting on storyboard for Alexander Nevsky
Signage in Roman and Cyrillic for Glow Subs attached to fast food restaurant with people inside
Statue of Lenin stands over busy intersection at dusk
Snow covered street and sidewalk with pedestrian before pastel blue and white Art Nouveau building
A sign post with directions to four different churches nearby
You can go anywhere as long as it’s to church
Orange dumptruck before orange and white Soveit era apartment block on snowy street
Cartoon face posting over Art Museum poster
A soldier stands beside a USSR era bronze sculpture of a soldier kneeling beside dog.
Boy standing in front of paintings at State Tretyakov Gallery
Exterior of State Tretyakov Gallery with sculpture of Founder
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Old apartment blocks seen from above covered in snow
Two black and white still images from Alexander Nevsky film by Eisenstein
Scenes from Ivan the Terrible played one frame at a time
A woman stands before large black and white documentary photos by Robert Longo