Pussy Riot documentary

[Ludmila Snigireva]

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On 29/12/2013 00:16, Sarah Hurst wrote:
> Here's my translation of a reply from the artistic director of the 
> Gogol Theatre:
>
> Kirill Serebrennikov
> 5 hours ago near Moscow, Russia
> Even recently in all my interviews I asserted like a mantra: “There’s 
> no censorship in the theatre, there’s no censorship in the theatre, in 
> the theatre there’s no...” That’s it, we’re fucked, there’s censorship 
> in the theatre! Cynical, pointless and idiotic.
> Now any freedom, any desire to find sense, any desire to express 
> oneself – it’s all stuck in the impenetrable gloom and hassle which 
> has arrived, filled all the space around us and controls us. We 
> thought that somewhere – in the theatre, in the “trendy” cafes, at 
> home, or at the computer – there was still a little free air. It’s 
> like climbing on top of a wardrobe in a flood and looking for 
> salvation under the ceiling, where there’s still some air. That’s it! 
> We’re fucked! There’s no air! The “overwhelming majority” got the air. 
> It – this majority – orders a government for itself, and the 
> government orders the music to amuse and delight this majority.
> They’ve banned us from holding the premiere of the film “Pussy Riot: A 
> Punk Prayer” and a meeting with Nadia Tolokonnikova and Masha 
> Alyokhina. Maxim Pozdorovkin had flown in specially from New York. All 
> the work of Irina Prokhorova, who was supposed to host the 
> conversation, has been cancelled. After a whole day of tense 
> negotiations a banning document arrived from the department of culture 
> at my request, which signifies one thing: censorship in action. That’s 
> it, it’s over! Who could be so afraid of a peaceful conversation 
> between a few hundred audience members at the Gogol Centre and some 
> young women who have been amnestied? Who could be so afraid of the 
> premiere of a film that has received a pile of prizes and that can’t 
> tell us anything new either about the government or about ourselves, 
> as it was made rather a long time ago? I don’t get it...
> The premiere and the conversation won’t happen.
> At the Moscow Art Theatre they’d only just finished the prosecutor’s 
> checks on my play The Pillowman, when a whole series of letters and 
> appeals appeared from “outraged and offended” citizens about Kostya 
> Bogomolov’s play. They demand Tabakov’s resignation. They demand “a 
> lawsuit”, “a ban”, “a closure”... And it’s clear that this isn’t just 
> an increase in seasonal schizophrenia – this is very real religious 
> censorship. We’re fucked! Welcome! We’ve made it! Now the fanatics 
> will tell us how to put on plays, what we can do and say on stage, and 
> what we can’t. Everyone knows what’s happening at the Moscow Art 
> Theatre, everyone reads the news. And where are all our professional 
> societies? Why are you silent? Did you piss yourselves? Well done! 
> Next time they’ll come for you.
> And finally – an ethical Charter for the “fuckoff” of cinematographers 
> – who have concluded an accord by this fucking symphony. Censorship 
> that they’re trying to bring in not by the hands of bureaucrats, not 
> by the clergy, but now by the hands of our colleagues themselves – the 
> most adroit and nimble students of “the Dragon”. This is what’s the 
> most disgusting and odious. Yes, a weak person, but it’s possible even 
> for this weak person just to go around it, it’s possible to try “not 
> to be, not to participate, not to do it”, but it’s possible to happily 
> kick down a comrade, help him to fall, make sure he doesn’t get up, 
> and at the same time be happy at the “elimination of a rival”. You’re 
> living right, friends! It’ll all work out for you.
> To sum up, it’s a shame that we’ve had to cancel the event. For me 
> it’s unbelievably repulsive and foul. I never thought that, to speak 
> in the words of the classics, “I’d fall into such fucking crap”. I 
> call on all people for whom the concepts of honesty and freedom are 
> alive, for whom the worth and right of an artist to create speak 
> freely are important, to rally round and oppose the coming Gloom. In 
> word, in action, in art, whatever you can do.
> And I hope that when this shameful bullshit ends, we, remembering all 
> this, will laugh at ourselves, and will write the truth about this 
> petty little period. If “the overwhelming majority” doesn’t cancel us, 
> the truth and everything else before then. But experienced people tell 
> me that because of our cowardice and laziness this “bullshit” will 
> never end.
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