On Sunday the Shchusev State Museum of Architecture in Moscow will hold the best of a documentary film concerning among the world’s leading experts in old Russian architecture, the American professor at Tulane University, William Craft Brumfield.
The movie, “The Treasure of William Brumfield,” was written and also routed by Irma Komladze, a popular photographer, artist, filmmaker and also designer.
Brumfield, the writer of lots of books on Russian design and society, digital photographer, and also teacher, has spent nearly a half century tramping with Russia’s hinterlands, cities and also towns, photographing and also studying ancient churches, abbeys and also secular structures.
Over his job he has actually taken greater than 150,000 images that have been identified, archived and also safely protected. He is a Fellow of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts, the U.S. Library of Congress specialist for their collection of photographs by Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky as well as has actually been awarded the Order of Friendship of Peoples by the Russian Federation.
The film follows Brumfield as he photographs his “treasures”– images of Russian churches, secular buildings, communities, and cities– and also as he meets his other “prizes”– art chroniclers, scholars, priests, writers, digital photographers and their households, that welcome him right into the houses from Vologda to Cherepovets.
Komladze stated of her movie’s topic, “We made a film concerning a person that discovered his treasure in Russian culture and also has actually given his entire life to the service of knowledge, to propaganda (in the most effective sense) of Russian society in the West.”
The 52-minute film (Russian with English subtitles) is premiering at one of Brumfield’s favored Moscow organizations, the Museum of Architecture. The American best will certainly occur during the Architecture Design Art Film Festival, to be held in Palm Springs, California on March 26-30. It will likewise be revealed at the Master of Art Film Festival in Bulgariф, which will occur on the internet Feb. 12-18 and afterwards live in Sofia, Plovdiv and Varna April 8-29. The movie will certainly after that be revealed on television and online systems.