In Mexico, Russian refugee and painter Vlady Kibalchich Rusakov completes an eight-year project to paint the frescoes in San Felipe Neri chapel, which the Mexican government has converted into the Miguel Lerdo library. He would have liked to paint landscapes, but cannot detach himself from his history, and reproduces the world revolutions. Leningrad Hospital, highlighting Sarah Maldoror’s denunciation of political imprisonment – a key element of her work – adheres to Russian writer Victor Serge’s text as it denounces the psychiatric hospitals that Stalin’s state police placed the leader’s opponents. L’hôpital de Leningrad (Leningrad Hospital) France. 1982. Director Sarah Maldoror. With Roger Blin, Rüdiger Vogler, Victor Garrivier, Anne Wiazemsky. 52min. Digital. With English subtitles Vlady (World Premiere of 4K restoration) France-Mexico. 1989. Sarah Maldoror. 24min. Digital 4K (restoration). With English subtitles Joint ticket available with Sarah Maldoror Herself + discussion on Thursday 3 September 18:20 NFT3. Tickets £14.50, concs £12.70 (Members pay £2.50 less). Book in person at the box office or by phone on 020 7928 3232. Screen: NFT3. Screening details: Special screening available; English language subtitles; Intro by season curator Annouchka de Andrade.
