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SUMMARY:Architecture + Design Film Series\, The Desert of Forbidden Art
LOCATION:Contois Auditorium\, 149 Church Street\, Burlington\, VT 05401
DESCRIPTION:During Stalin’s Soviet era\, Igor Savitsky collected more than
  40\,000 beautiful\, colorful\, powerful and rarely seen works by artists
  experimenting in a brash\, avant-garde style. These works\, at odds with
  the drab realism favored by the government\, put the artists at great ri
 sk. Savitsky searched out the artists and their works and created a museu
 m in Uzbekistan\, remote enough that he evaded the worst of Soviet censor
 ship. He collected and preserved cultural artifacts of Uzbeks as the gove
 rnment attempted to erase the culture. This film follows his story\, taki
 ng us on a dramatic journey of sacrifice for the sake of creative freedom
 \, while revealing the glorious works of art and the stories of the peopl
 e involved.\n\nScreen from Home\, Same Day Only\n\nDirected by Tchavdar G
 eorgiev & Amanda Pope\n\n2011\, Russia\, USA\, Uzbekistan\, 80 Minutes\n\
 nFREE. Doors open at 6 pm\, screening begins at 6:30 pm\n\nLearn more abo
 ut the Season 14 of The Architecture + Design Film Series at adfilmseries
 .org\n\nhttp://next-to-u.app/events/adbc8188-e81b-4019-b6e7-cde56a1adfed
URL:http://next-to-u.app/events/adbc8188-e81b-4019-b6e7-cde56a1adfed
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