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IFC CANADA AIRS AN ENCORE PRESENTATION OF VICE GUIDE TO FILM

In the 1980’s as the walls in Eastern Europe were coming down and Gorbachev opened Russia to the world introducing glasnost and perestroika, something really freaky happened: Parallel Cinema.

In the 1980's as the walls in Eastern Europe were coming down and Gorbachev opened Russia to the world introducing glasnost and perestroika, something really freaky happened: Parallel Cinema. Soviet artists' fear of State scrutiny lessened to the point where some dared to create a new wave of experimental film: an insane mish-mash of booze, violence, surrealism, and insanity. In short, the kind of movies that VICE needed to find out more about. This Friday, June 11 9pm EST, IFC Canada will be re-airing the Russian episode of our Vice Guide to Film. In it, Shane travels to Moscow to meet some of the strange cast of characters that are the founding fathers of Russian Parallel Cinema including Oleg Kulik, a performer who does artsy stuff like sticking his head in a cow's vagina and having a horse bite his nipple, and Yevgeni Yufit one of Russia's most transgressive filmmakers who had the genius idea to marry Socialist realism and zombie films. Remember to stay tuned because immediately following that is The Beirut episode where Eddie Moretti meets up with a Palestinian Boy Scout leader named Ahmad who becomes part of a new wave of young Lebanese filmmakers.