Teaser. Film Program of The Ural Industrial Biennial

Coliseum Cinema, Ekaterinburg, 43 Lenin Avenue September 14 — October 26, 2019 Critic Alexander Podbornov, who created the film program (with the support by Kevin Wu), is working with questions posed by curator Xiaoyu Weng in the exhibition For A Multitude of Futures. The resulting series of screenings also refuses the future of integrity and coherence, like the main project of the Biennial. Science fiction is an important tool of self-cognition for contemporary society, and blockbusters like The Martian or Interstellar usually provide answers to pressing questions of our time. But science fiction created outside large Hollywood studios and not included in a worldwide distribution exists in the experimental space and does not seek to give the viewers any specific directives and answers to all questions. Rather, it challenges the current state of affairs and creates productive perplexity.