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AI is obviously changing the nature of creative processes. It plays an important role in creative activities such as music, architecture, fine arts... Indeed, the computer is already a canvas, a brush, a musical instrument itself... What is the relationship between science, computers and creativity?

Artistic freedom can be defined as "the freedom to imagine, create and distribute diverse cultural expressions free of governmental censorship, political interference or the pressures of non-state actors." Generally, artistic freedom describes the extent of independence artists obtain to create art freely. In the project "Art Freedom" - " De la Liberté dans l'Art ? ", we trying to disclose different perseprions and find the answers to the questions : What is the Artistic freedom ? Is the ideological dictate in art trasformed into the dictede of the market ? What is the possition of the artist nowdays ?

The central character of this film, is the famous fashion producer. The life of the artist consist of the numerous rehearsals, preparation... Then - the show passes as one moment and everything dissapears... The moment of silence sometimes is hard... The contrast between superficial world of show business and real life...

How to stand it, and where is reality ?

A hundred years ago, Marc Chagall was appointed commissar for fine art for the city of Vitebsk, today in Byelorussia. This appointment, soon followed by the opening of the Vitebsk School of Art on Chagall’s initiative, marked the beginning of a period of effervescent artistic activity in the city. Among the artists Chagall invited to teach at the new institution were leading figures of the Russian avant-garde such as El Lissitzky and Kasimir Malevich, inventor of Suprematism...

Film about famous artist - Lazar Khidekel. He was the only architect from Malevich's group who completed innovative ideas in the building of residential complexes, theaters, movie-houses, and in drafting plans for new forms of skyscrapers. In the middle of the 1920s Khidekel was exploring specialized projects of buildings for a new way of life, the communal housing in Suprematist style, as well as he was the first in the 20th century to create projects of futuristic cities. Lazar Khidekel was an artist, designer, architect and theoretician, who is noted for realizing the abstract, avant-garde Suprematist movement through architecture. By developing Suprematist ideas, Khidekel early defined his personal approach to Suprematist canon, introducing his own Suprematist painterly idioms, forms, ideas, and thoughts.

At the height of the Cold War, artist Alexander Kosolapov developed an approach to reappropriation and diversion, combining symbols from Soviet political propaganda with American commercial advertising. The idealization of the masses is at work in both of those domains – for its purchasing power in the West and its productive power in the East. The misappropriation of religious symbols and major figures from western art history also enters into his practice, forming the structure of ideological systems that question him and make him react. Alexander Kosolapov was one of the first to perform that kind of operation, which has since been taken up by many other artists and even by advertising...

Every year, the world commemorates the six million Jews who became victims of the Nazis in World War II.But there is another page in the history of the Holocaust, written by thousands of brave people who risked their own lives to save the persecuted: they sheltered them in their homes...

The artist Abram Ostrovsky was very rarely remembered. At the Sovietic period - there were no chance of any artistic freedom... Portraits of production leaders. Slogans and visual propaganda. A large family, it was necessary to earn money, and there were no conditions for creative work. During his lifetime he did not have a single personal exhibition, only after he passed away at the age of 68.

In 1682 during his last trip to the Ottoman Empire Antoine Galland wrote down couple of stories that were told to him by a wandering monk. For unknown
reasons those stories were not included to “The Thousand and One Nights”.

Then 331 years have passed and animation director Anatoliy Lavrenishyn made a movie out of one of the most fantastic stories of the collection and called it “The Shop of SongBirds”.

The famous contemporary painters living in Paris. Beyond the rhythm of the crowded city, they created the reality of their own freedom, without boundaries. Their strength of energy and depth of wisdom are shaped with their characters through the texture of art. The surrealism of Soviet Union reality is transformed into the paintings of Eric Boulatov, Oscar Rabine and other representatives of generations of artistic dissidence… Their works are priceless today but only a short time ago the work of these non-conformist artists was exiled from the Soviet union with a stamp : “ Approved for export from the USSR. Art of no value”.

Film about the avant-garde artist TIMUR NOVIKOV, who was well ahead of his time; an icon, that smashed geographical boundaries and sexual preconceptions; a legend, that single-handedly brought about the cultural revolution, — and won.
«Who Is Timur? 5 Stories» — a very special tribute to Saint-Petersburg avant-garde innovator, an incredible portrait puzzle put together by people who knew Novikov.