Part of Putin’s Russia: A 21st Century Film Mosaic & New Adventures in Nonfiction (2018)
Sunday, July 1, 2018, 2:00 p.m.
Museum of the Moving Image - Redstone Theater

SCREENING CANCELLED. This screening has been rescheduled to Sunday, July 22, 6:30 p.m. We apologize for this inconvenience. 

Dir. Salomé Lamas. 2018, 85 mins. Digital projection. Kolya is a young man from Moldova with a declared loyalty towards Transnistria—a country that remains unrecognized by the international community and does not officially exist, and which remains rooted in communist ideology. Portuguese filmmaker Salomé Lamas's entrancing, sonically immersive film follows Kolya across various borders, each with its own history and shadowy demands, and bringing him to various haunted monuments to Soviet progress, to ghosts with remnant koans and axes still to grind. Extinction is a singularly evocative meditation on the simultaneous fluidity and immobility of life in the former Soviet territories. 

Tickets: $15 ($11 seniors and students / $9 youth (ages 3–17) / free for children under 3 and Museum members at the Film Lover and Kids Premium levels and above). Order tickets online. (Members may contact [email protected] with questions regarding online reservations.)

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