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In "The Desert of Forbidden Art,'' documentarians Amanda Pope and Tchavdar Georgiev offer some background on the late Savitsky, a painter who initially collected ethnic folk art quashed by the Stalin regime. They offer a bit less background than they might on the under-funded museum, where staffers still lay
out water trays as makeshift humidifiers to protect pieces from the region's blistering heat. The film's greatest focus is on those whose work Savitsky pursued, notably an avant-garde school of Russian artists who settled in
Uzbekistan following the revolution but often still fell victim to Stalinist repression. When a painter like Savitsky favorite Mikhail Kurzin eschewed state-mandated "social realism'' i.e. images of cheerful proles eagerly doing their part for the motherland he was hauled off to the gulag.
The filmmakers ably present interviews with Savitsky's associates, the painters' children and grandchildren, art historians, a journalist whose reporting informs "Desert,'' and even an ex-party boss who recalls how Savitsky worked the system to grab government funding for outlawed art. But the most compelling
moments feature actors doing audio dramatizations of the subjects' writings. One anecdote about Savitsky flouting an official demand to remove an offending painting ends with this deftly scoffing voice-over from his stand-in, Ben Kingsley: "Anti-Soviet? Of course. Degenerate? No way. The next day, after the commission left, I put it on the wall again.''
At another point, Ed Asner reenacts Kurzin's response to government interrogation. "I don't remember the matter of my anti-Soviet speech,'' he says. Then, in an accent thick as Stalin's mustache, he grumbles,
"Because I was drunk.'' It's an over-the-top moment, but also one that communicates the Uzbek avant-garde's spiritedness presumably one of the very qualities that made Savitsky their great defender.
Tchavdar Georgiev and Amanda Pope co-direct a documentary celebrating an intrepid and unsung Soviet-era curator. Discouraged from a career as a painter by his mentor, Igor Savitsky was inspired by an archaeological stint at the site of the ancient Khorezm civilization. After moving there,
he began collecting folk art and artifacts of Central Asia in 1957. "The Desert of Forbidden Art" relates his achievements against the backdrop of Stalinist policy regarding official culture and regional minorities.
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