Ingūna Postaža (b. 1970)

The Eve of Ivan Kupalo/Vecher nakanune Ivana Kupala, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, 1968

“A master of Ukrainian poetic cinema, Yuri Ilyenko gained world-wide acclaim as the cinematographer of Parajanov’s Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors. As a director, he stands proudly in the anti-realist tradition of Dovzhenko: of his nine films, all but one were banned until last year, when A Spring for the Thirsty stunned SFIFF audiences. The Eve of Ivan Kupalo-based on Gogol’s rendering of a Ukrainian folk tale-is probably Ilyenko’s most inspired and experimental work. The opposite of what one expects from a film taken from peasant mythology, it is neither quaint nor corny, and doesn’t depend on broad acting and hearty singing. Suffused with the earthly pantheism of a half-pagan Christianity, Ilyenko’s film celebrates the unbridled passions of a people linked to nature and the rites of the seasons, to animals and the spirits of the forests. The story-a young peasant’s pact with the evil spirit in order to win the hand of a rich man’s daughter-is a simple parable of the evil power of gold over man. The cinematic treatment is dazzlingly complex, a series of astonishing and inventive images-boldly composed in color Cinemascope-married to an equally ambitious sound montage of music and stylized effects.”

Viera Gergelová: illustration for “Puf a Muf” by Natasa Tanska, 1972.

Idyll, 1927, Francis Picabia

Medium: gouache,cardboard

The Color of Pomegranates (1969) 

dir. Sergei Parajanov (x)

Pokhara, Nepal

Jim Henson and Frank Oz Performing Ernie On Episode 1090, January 13, 1978

Season 9 (1977-1978) Ernie plays doctor and makes Bert be the patient for his check-up. He checks Bert’s heart, mouth and more. At the end, Bert wonders how he is feeling, but Ernie can’t tell him that until he’s a real doctor, twenty-three years from now. Bert faints after Ernie’s answer and Ernie wonders if there’s a doctor in the house.#rarepic

Hayv Kahraman, Iraq

Item: wristwatch containing a bored but hardworking Pixie that points at the time for you