Electronica for Pudovkin

The old silent film “End of Saint Petersburg” produced by Vsevolod Pudovkin in 1927 accompanied by the live electronic music has suddenly obtained unexpected energy and expressiveness.

The presentation was held in the recently restored hall of the oldest stone building of Arkhangelsk "Gostinyi Dvor" built in 17th century. The old stone walls of the hall and fantastic aqoustic made it even more impressive.

Amazing skills
The non-numerous audience mostly consisted of professional musicians and the journalists. They were rather amazed how skilfully the international team of musicians could reproduce the troubled spirit of pre-revolutionary Russia, characters and silhouettes of the capital of the Russian Empire at the threshold of its fall. In some fantastic way the modern music has totally contemorized with the visual patterns created by the genius master more than 80 years ago.

There was a strong impression that the music has dissolved the borders of time and space and made a new synthetic reality of sounds, images, human emotions pierced by powerful Soviet ideological machinery.

BarentsKult project
The project funded by the BarentsKult Program has been first time presented in January this year at the International Film Festival TIFF in Tromso. It is the second part of the trilogy made by one of the best film directors in the history of the world cinematography.

The first part called “Mother” was presented in Arkhangelsk in autumn last year. The music for the film “End of Saint-Petersburg” was composed by Gaute Barlindhaug (electronic), Nasra Ali Omar (percussion) from Tromso and Vitor Shubin (electronica) from Petrozavodsk.

During this week the musicians are going to make a tour over the cities in Russia and to make the presentations of their project in Petrozavodsk, Moscow, St. Petersburg and Murmansk.