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Boris Groys

Boris Groys

Boris Efimovich Groys (born 19 March 1947 in Berlin, Germany) is an art critic, media theorist, and philosopher. He is a professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at New York University and senior research fellow at the Academy of Design in Karlsruhe, Germany. He has been a professor ofAesthetics, Art History, and Media Theory at the Academy of Design/Center for Art and Media Technology (HfG/ZKM) in Karlsruhe, Germany and a visiting professor at a number of universities in the United States and Europe, including the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Southern California.

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Movies Starring Boris Groys (5)

Christoph Schlingensief - Die Piloten (2008)

Documentary satire about a project by Christoph Schlingensief: Ten years after his TV project "Talk 2000", Schlingensief started to work on a new talk show – at least that was what he claimed. But in reality, it was obvious that the pilot episodes he pro ...

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Thinking in Loop 1. Iconoclastic Delights (2008)

Thinking in Loop: Three videos on iconoclasm, ritual and immortality. Combining theoretical texts and film footage, the topic of these videos is, actually, video as a medium: the use of the image within the video, the analogy between video and essay, the d ...

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Thinking in Loop 2. Religion as Medium (2008)

Thinking in Loop: Three videos on iconoclasm, ritual and immortality. Combining theoretical texts and film footage, the topic of these videos is, actually, video as a medium: the use of the image within the video, the analogy between video and essay, the d ...

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Thinking in Loop 3. The Immortal Bodies (2008)

Thinking in Loop: Three videos on iconoclasm, ritual and immortality. Combining theoretical texts and film footage, the topic of these videos is, actually, video as a medium: the use of the image within the video, the analogy between video and essay, the d ...

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Lenin's Body (1992)

In 1991, the Communist Empire of the USSR was destroyed. And one of the main symbols of Soviet power — Lenin's Mausoleum and Lenin's Body itself were left without an owner. The film tells about Lenin's body, its contents, its protection and different opi ...

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Movies Made By Boris Groys (5)

The Communist Revolution Was Caused By The Sun (2015)

The second installment of Anton Vidokle's trilogy on Russian cosmism, The Communist Revolution Was Caused By The Sun, looks at the poetic dimension of the solar cosmology of Soviet biophysicist Alexander Chizhevsky. Shot in Kazakhstan, where Chizhevsky was ...

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This Is Cosmos (2014)

Based on the ideas of Russian philosopher, Nikolai Fedorov, Anton Vidokle's film was shot in Siberia, Crimea, and Kazakhstan. Fedorov, like others, believed that death was a mistake, "because the energy of cosmos is indestructible, because true religion is ...

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Thinking in Loop 1. Iconoclastic Delights (2008)

Thinking in Loop: Three videos on iconoclasm, ritual and immortality. Combining theoretical texts and film footage, the topic of these videos is, actually, video as a medium: the use of the image within the video, the analogy between video and essay, the d ...

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Thinking in Loop 2. Religion as Medium (2008)

Thinking in Loop: Three videos on iconoclasm, ritual and immortality. Combining theoretical texts and film footage, the topic of these videos is, actually, video as a medium: the use of the image within the video, the analogy between video and essay, the d ...

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Thinking in Loop 3. The Immortal Bodies (2008)

Thinking in Loop: Three videos on iconoclasm, ritual and immortality. Combining theoretical texts and film footage, the topic of these videos is, actually, video as a medium: the use of the image within the video, the analogy between video and essay, the d ...

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