A+D Film Screening: The Desert of Forbidden Art

Date: 11/11/26 6:00 PM
Location: Burlington/ Brattleboro/ Virtual

6 pm Doors | 6:30 pm Film
Burlington Contois Aud, 149 Church St.
Brattleboro 118 Elliot St.
Same day screen from home: adfilmseries.org

Directed by Tchavdar Georgiev & Amanda Pope
2011, Russia, USA, Uzbekistan, 80 Minutes

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 risk. Savitsky searched out the artists and their works and
created a museum in Uzbekistan, remote enough that he evaded
the worst of Soviet censorship. He collected and preserved cultural
artifacts of Uzbeks as the government attempted to erase the
culture. This film follows his story, taking 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 people involved.

Contact: AD Film Series
Email: adfilmseries@ gmail.com