Event

CFF: ELEKTRO MOSKVA

2015 Cinedelphia Film Festival and Lesser Gods present

Philadelphia Premiere!
ELEKTRO MOSKVA
(2013, 89 min, Dir. Dominik Spritzendorfer + Elena Tikhonova)
with post-screening live performances!

ELEKTRO MOSKVA [Electro Moscow] is an essayistic documentary about the Soviet electronic age and its legacy. The story begins with the inventor of the world's first electronic instrument, Leon Theremin, unveiling the KGB's huge pile of fascinating devices, some of which were musical. They all came into existence as a by-product of a rampant defense industry. Nowadays, those aged and abandoned 'musical coffins', as solidly made as a Kalashnikov, are being recycled and reinterpreted by the post-Soviet generations of musicians, sound collectors and circuit benders. The story of the Soviet synthesizers as an allegory to the everyday life under the Soviet system: nothing works, but you have to make the best out of it. An electronic fairy tale about the inventive spirit of the free mind inside the iron curtain- and beyond.

Post-screening live performances!

$10 admission, no refunds or exchanges.

Cinedelphia Film Festival
April 9-25, 2015
http://www.cinedelphiafilmfestival.com

PhilaMOCA
531 N. 12th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19123
http://www.philamoca.org