Mikhail Shemyakin. Confessions of an artist (1989)

Mikhail Shemyakin walks along the fence of the bridge in New York, overlooking the skyscrapers.

Shemyakin is walking down the street, smoking.

Panorama of houses on 5th Avenue, car traffic, people on the street.

The face of Shemyakin walking down the street.

Shemyakin on the streets of New York, people walk down the street, cross it on a pedestrian crossing.

Shemyakin crosses the street.

View of one of the streets of New York.

Shemyakin in his studio makes a sketch in pastel on a black background, draws spontaneously.

A picture on a black background depicting the head of a fox, created by Shemyakin.

Shemyakin's paintings, painted in colored pastel on black paper.

The queue for the exhibition of Mikhail Shemyakin in Moscow, a panorama of the building of the exhibition hall.

Panorama of the Central Exhibition Hall, filled with visitors to the exhibition of works by Shemyakin (above).

Poet Andrey Voznesensky speaks at the opening of the exhibition.

Shemyakin speaks to the audience and gives interviews.

Visitors in one of the exhibition halls.

Artists welcome Shemyakin in one of the exhibition halls.

Voznesensky walks next to Shemyakin through one of the halls.

Faces of visitors, paintings by Shemyakin, presented at the exhibition.

Arrival of Shemyakin in Leningrad, meeting at the railway station with friends of his youth.

Shemyakin walks along the building of the Hermitage in the direction of Millionnaya Street.

Shemyakin smokes, standing on the bridge above the Winter Ditch.

Views of the Fontanka and Neva river embankments.

Types of streets and courtyards of Leningrad.

View of the courtyard-well from the inside (from bottom to top).

Illustrations from the graphic series for Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, created by Shemyakin.

Shemyakin and his friends pass by the Peter and Paul Fortress.

The building of the Academy of Arts.

Shemyakin during a visit to the Academy of Arts, TV and film cameramen are shooting.

Artist Mikhail Shemyakin talks about the ideological problems in the Soviet visual arts in the 1970s, sending artists to forced psychiatric treatment, instilling the principle of socialist realism, talks about the tragic fate of the artist Sergei Alekseev, who lost his health due to forced treatment, about his conflict with the authorities, and the reasons for exclusion from art school (synchronously).

View of the Winter Trench in Leningrad.

Pigeons in the square.

Shemyakin's illustrations to the works of T. A. Hoffman, to the story of N. V. Gogol "The Nose", behind the scenes, Shemyakin's story about working on illustrations sounds (synchronously).

Shemyakin and his companion ascend the main staircase of the Academy of Fine Arts.

Shemyakin in the studio of one of the artists.

Shemyakin talks about six exhibitions in Russia that were curtailed and arrested, about the scandal at the exhibition in the Hermitage in 1964 and its consequences (synchronously).

Photos of Shemyakin among the artists participating in the exhibition of 1964 in the Hermitage.

Still lifes created by Shemyakin.

Shemyakin during a visit to the Academy of Fine Arts, a wax figure of Peter I in a niche in one of the halls.

Engravings and drawings by Shemyakin, dedicated to the reforms and decrees of Peter the Great.

Urban landscapes created by Shemyakin, photos of his studio in Leningrad.

Staged photos of Shemyakin and his friends depicting various scenes.

Allegorical paintings by Shemyakin depicting a gendarme and a Harlequin.

Shemyakin talks about his creative life in Leningrad, the arrangement of mini-exhibitions of Leningrad artists, the creation of a manifesto of artists with a request to the authorities, a meeting with the first secretary of the Leningrad Regional Committee of the CPSU Tolstikov, a call to the KGB (synchronously).

Entrance to the building of the psychiatric hospital.

Drawings and portraits of patients made by Shemyakin during his stay on compulsory treatment in a psychiatric hospital.

The barred windows of the hospital, the entrance to the hospital, behind the scenes, Shemyakin's story about his feelings and mood after leaving the hospital sounds (synchronously).

Types of forest streams and mountain springs.

Panorama of the forest on the mountainside.

Types of temples of the Pskov-Pechersk Monastery, where Shemyakin went after being discharged from the hospital.

Photos of Archimandrite Alipius.

Panorama of a part of the monastery territory, buildings of temples and buildings.

Photo of Shemyakin during his stay in the monastery as a novice.

View of the monastery belfry.

Archimandrite Alipius blesses the brethren at the beginning of the service.

Service in the church, consecration of the prosphora.

View of the building of the gate church of the monastery.

Archimandrite Alypy is on the territory of the monastery.

Monks on the territory of the monastery.

Landscapes Of The Pskov Region.

Allegorical paintings created by Shemyakin.

Shemyakin talks about the reasons for the expulsion from the USSR and the departure to Paris (synchronously).

Visitors in one of the halls of the Shemyakin exhibition in Moscow, a panorama of the hall.

Shemyakin gives autographs to visitors of the exhibition.

Photos of Shemyakin signing autographs during a press conference.

Photos of Shemyakin's meetings with Yevgeny Yevtushenko and cultural figures.

The queue for the Shemyakin exhibition in Moscow.

Street views of New York.

Panorama of the workshop of Shemyakin in New York.

Shemyakin takes a folder from the shelf of his archive-library.

Folders with reproductions from the library of Shemyakin.

Shemyakin parses the reproductions, sorts them, puts them in a folder.

Shemyakin in his library of reproductions.

Shemyakin's paintings, transformed from rock paintings, primitive frescoes, ritual masks and drawings of clothing of the peoples of the world.

Photos of Shemyakin during the presentation of international awards to him.

Shemyakin speaks on the phone against the background of the wall with the diplomas handed to him.

Photos of Shemyakin as a child with his father.

In his studio in New York, Shemyakin is working on an allegorical sculpture in the form of a human skull.

Shemyakin's paintings from the series "Konigsberg Still lifes".

Shemyakin's painting dedicated to the theme of the Holocaust and the painting-transformation of M. Chagall's work "The Violinist on the Roof".

A statuette depicting the composer Stravinsky, created by Shemyakin.

Allegorical portraits of Stravinsky, created by Shemyakin.

Illustration for the ballet Stravinsky's "the rite of Spring", "Petrushka" and "the Firebird" created Shemyakin.

Photos taken by Shemyakin in the meat aisles of the market "Belly of Paris".

Shemyakin's works from the "Womb" series, exhibited in New York.

Photo of V. S. Vysotsky with a butchered meat carcass.

The text of a poem by Vysotsky dedicated to Shemyakin and his series "The Womb".

Shemyakin's paintings from the "Womb" series.

Shemyakin in his workshop works on the statue of Peter I, behind the scenes, Shemyakin's story about working on the statue sounds (synchronously).

Paintings and statuettes of Shemyakin from the series "Carnival".

Shemyakin cleans the figurines from dust with a brush.

Guitar of V. S. Vysotsky in the workshop of Shemyakin.

Shemyakin's illustrations to the songs of Vysotsky, fragments of illustrations.

Grave grave photos of Shemyakin laying flowers on the grave of Vysotsky at the Vagankovsky Cemetery in Moscow, a photo of the monument to Vysotsky on his grave.

Photo of Vysotsky with Shemyakin in the artist's studio.

Shemyakin reflects, sitting in his workshop, smoking.

The interior of the Cabinet Shemyakin Shemyakin is sitting at the Desk, Smoking.

Shemyakin's illustration for the works of Vladimir Vysotsky.

Entrance to an art gallery in San Francisco.

Co-owner of the gallery Serge Sarock shows the interest by American collectors for creativity Shemyakin Shemyakin about the meaning, as an artist for contemporary art, innovative methods of work (synchronously).

Works by Shemyakin on the walls of the gallery.

Shemyakin talks about his love for New York, its tenderness and severity, his love for Leningrad and nostalgia for it, about his life abroad, about the glorification of Russian art abroad, about the role of the Western way of life in the formation of character and worldview (synchronously).

Street views of New York City at night, illuminated advertising, illuminated shop windows.

Panorama of the shopping center, the entrance to the cinema.

The types of evening of Broadway.

Panorama of shop windows with light advertising.

Photos of Vysotsky with Shemyakin, Shemyakin in the studio working on another painting, fragments of the painting, the face of Shemyakin.

Interior view of the workshop of Shemyakin.

The film is dedicated to the artist Mikhail Shemyakin.