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International Music Video Festival "Museek"
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February 26-28
Pioner Cinema on Kutuzovsky 
On February 26-28 Tour de Film presents the International Music Video Festival "Museek" at Pioneer Cinema in Moscow. "Museek" ("music" plus "seek") aims first of all at seeking after and supporting actors and directors who try to show music in a very original way. For two years "Museek" has already become the major Europe's cinema event: programs of 2008-2009 were demonstrated in France, UK, Germany, Austria and Russia. About 2000 music videos from all around the globe – from Russia, USA, Europe and Australia to India, Philippine, Albania and Luxembourg – were reviewed by the curators of the festival to select just those that had added something new to the genre for the last two years. And, of course, they selected the best of the best! This year's programs boast the most fascinating and extraordinary music videos of 2009 featuring innovative interpretation of animation, daring visual solutions and techniques, at times shocking combination of music and video - Coldplay, Royksopp, Dolphin, Hauschka, Firekites, Rusconi, Lenny Kravitz, Air France, Lyapis Trubetskoy, The Presets, Justice, Everything is Made in China, Devendra Banhart, Oi Va Voi, Bloc Party, Brasstronaut, Familjen, Santigold, Air, Metallica, Lily Allen, Tokio, Beck, Fleet Foxes, Grizzly Bear, Kid Cudi, The Hickey Underworld to name just a few.
In Moscow "Museek" presents several programs: Michel Gondry's music video retrospective "Daydreaming" and three competitive programs – "Side A", "Side B" and "Bonus Tracks".
The festival will open with the music video retrospective "Daydreaming" (Moscow premiere) by Michel Gondry - the director who changed the very idea of music video turning it from a secondary side genre into a work of art. "Daydreaming" includes music videos made for such cult performer as Radiohead, Bjork, The Rolling Stones, Beck, Daft Punk, Chemical Brothers, Massive Attack, The White Stripes and others featuring various trends, techniques and methods of music video.
"Side A" will start with Royksopp's composition about happiness; then Lyapis Trubetskoy will suggest constructing future society and Lenny Kravitz will join the unequal battle with the film's final credits. Plus - works made of chalk and cardboard, New York vivified photographs, dancing tractors and half-naked French girls.
In "Side B" Devendra Banhart will star in Indian movie, Oi Va Voi will cut themselves into small pieces, Metallica will tell us all the truth about the Tunguska meteorite. Plus - dancing hair, depressing animals, watercolors, mosaic and threads and finally Lily Allen singing a song about happiness with a touch of explicit vocabulary.
In "Bonus Tracks" Wiley will prove that crisis is not a reason for melancholy and depression but time to ... dance; Grizzly Bear will sing in choir in front of the altar and Justice will plunge into dancing. Plus - abstract analogue video, gambling teddy-bears, sand animation, dancing furniture and finally Naive New Beaters explaining what is like to be well-off.
Festival Program
February 26
22:00 - Michel Gondry: Daydreaming (Hall 1, 2)
February 27
22:00 - Michel Gondry: Daydreaming (Hall 1)
22:00 - Side A (Hall 2)
00:00 - Side B (Hall 1)
00:00 - Bonus Tracks (Hall 2)
February 28
16:00 - Side B (Hall 1)
16:00 - Side A (Hall 2)
18:00 - Bonus Tracks (Hall 1)
18:00 - Michel Gondry: Daydreaming (Hall 2)
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