Necrorealism

Ideologisk manifest
Yevgeniy Yufit – Necrorealist Cinema

Necrorealism was established as a radical movement in the Leningrad art scene with several “parallel” or underground films, those made outside the Goskino State Cinema system. These films were created during the time of pre-perestroika – 1984-1985, in the independent film studio MZHALALA FILM. The studio brought together a group of radical underground artists including Yevgeniy Yufit, Igor Bezrukov, Yevgeniy Kondratiev, and Konstantin Mitenev.

“Early necrorealist declarations affirmed the life of the body abandoned by the soul and...