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Fragments

Yevgeny Yufit is a member of Russia’s Parallel Cinema movement. He first became famous for his macabre short films, which often look as though they were made during the 1920s or 30s. In the 1990s, Yufit began making features similar in style to his shorts, with plots often centred on genetic experimentation and pseudoscience. He is often described as a ‘necro- realist’; he uses elements of horror and science fiction cinema and combines them with the bleakest aspects of neo-realism to examine humanity’s relationship with death and decay. Yufit examines the metamorphoses of corpses as a metaphor for cinema: expired celluloid and careless editing are seen as cadavers, suicides or zombies. He courts complete madness, filming endless ideological battles at high speed, struggles in which ‘us’ and ‘them’ are indistinguishable.

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