Veronika Rudyeva-Ryazantseva, The Russian Unconscious, 2008, 1:12

Scope New York at Lincoln Center Cinema Series Presents  The Russians Are Here Organized by Lee Wells Friday, March 6 Program 1 12pm–2pm Walking a Fine Line—Parables of the Sublime and the Subversive in Russian Video Art Curated by Ksenia Fedorova and Alisa Prudnikova The National Center for Contemporary Art presents Russian video that reflects complex and controversial attitude towards the sublime in Russian culture. Artists include: Leonid Tishkov, Blue Soup, Vladlena Gromova, Alexey Buldakov, Veronika Rudyeva-Ryazantseva, Provmyza, Bombily and others. www.uralncca.ru Program 2 2pm–3pm Curated by Christina Steinbrecher, Anya Zaitseva and Andrey Silvestrov CINE FANTOM and Winzavod present a retrospective of Russian experimental (Parallel) Cinema 1980s - present. CINE FANTOM is a Moscow based film club established in 1995. Artists include: Vera Wolf, Aleinikov Brothers, Andrey Golovin, Larisa Bocharova, Alexander Doulerain, Jamey Bradsharow, Olga Stolpovskaya and Shota Gamisonia http://cinefantom.ru and  www.winzavod.com Program 3 3pm–4pm A Stranger in a Strange Land Curated by Lee Wells Video by artists that Wells met, during his residency with NCCA in Russia. Artists include: Yuliya Lanina, Den Marino, Kirill Preobrazhenskiy, Masha Sha, Julia Milner, Where the Dogs Run Group, and others. www.leewells.org Panel Discussion 4pm–6pm Contemporary Russian Video and New Media Alisa Prudnikova, Anya Zaytseva, Christina Steinbrecher, Anna Frants, Juan Puntez, and Leah Stuhltrager. Moderated by Lee Wells