Mute Nights Festival
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Mute Nights ) or Festival of Silent Film and Contemporary Music, is an annual film festival
, which takes place in Odessa, Ukraine the third weekend of June,. organized by Ivan and Yuriy Lypa Charitable Foundation and State Film Agency of Ukraine. The festival's debut opening ceremonies were held at the Korobchinsky Art Center on June 18, 2010.
classics by means of contemporary music interpretations, performed by Europe
an guest-artists and Ukrainian musicians, and to restore a contemporary art context to the Ukrainian avant-garde
films of Alexander Dovzhenko
, Dziga Vertov
, Ivan Kavaleridze, Heorhiy Stabovyi and others.
As the first Ukrainian films were created in Odessa, the city was chosen as the venue, where Festival takes place.
Film festival
A film festival is an organised, extended presentation of films in one or more movie theaters or screening venues, usually in a single locality. More and more often film festivals show part of their films to the public by adding outdoor movie screenings...
, which takes place in Odessa, Ukraine the third weekend of June,. organized by Ivan and Yuriy Lypa Charitable Foundation and State Film Agency of Ukraine. The festival's debut opening ceremonies were held at the Korobchinsky Art Center on June 18, 2010.
Mission
The festival is intended to aid in the popularization and reinterpretation of international silent filmSilent film
A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...
classics by means of contemporary music interpretations, performed by Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
an guest-artists and Ukrainian musicians, and to restore a contemporary art context to the Ukrainian avant-garde
Avant-garde
Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....
films of Alexander Dovzhenko
Alexander Dovzhenko
Aleksandr Petrovich Dovzhenko , was a Soviet screenwriter, film producer and director of Ukrainian descent. He is often cited as one of the most important early Soviet filmmakers, alongside Sergei Eisenstein and Vsevolod Pudovkin.- Biography :...
, Dziga Vertov
Dziga Vertov
David Abelevich Kaufman , better known by his pseudonym Dziga Vertov , was a Soviet pioneer documentary film, newsreel director and cinema theorist...
, Ivan Kavaleridze, Heorhiy Stabovyi and others.
Festival
The festival is an open air and runs for a two-day period at the moorage of Odessa yacht-club.As the first Ukrainian films were created in Odessa, the city was chosen as the venue, where Festival takes place.