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Revolution - New Art for a New World

  • Archive - Festival 32
  • Director: Margy Kinmonth
  • United Kingdom 2016
  • 85 minutes
  • English
  • Subtitles in Hebrew

Revolution encapsulates a momentous period in the history of Russia and the Russian Avant-Garde. Drawing on the collections of major Russian institutions, contributions from contemporary artists and curators, the film brings the artists of the Russian Avant-Garde to life.
Revolution tells the stories of artists like Chagall, Kandinsky, Malevich and others - pioneers who flourished in response to the Utopian challenge of building a New Art for a New World, only to be broken after 15 short years. The film features paintings previously banned and masterpieces, which rarely leave Russia.
Filmography: Hermitage Revealed (2014), Royal Paintbox (2013), To the Western World (1981).

World Premiere


  • Director Margy Kinmonth
  • Production Margy Kinmonth
  • Script Margy Kinmonth
  • Cinematography Gennady Nemikh, Maxim Tarasyugin, Patrick Duval
  • Editing Gordon Mason
  • Music Edmund Jolliffe
  • Actors Professor Mikhail Piotrovsky, Zelfira Tregulova, Andrei Konchalovsky
  • Voices Matthew Macfadyen, Tom Hollander, James Fleet, Eleanor Tomlinson
  • Source Park Circus, Glasgow

Revolution - New Art for a New World