Books
Women Film Directors in the Contemporary World
“Gogol’s Wives did not make a conventional biographical film; instead, they constructed a manifesto-like statement intended to convey as precisely as possible the essence of Pussy Riot’s activity: rebellion and political protest.”
“It is largely to Krugovykh and Bogatov — tireless and dedicated art partisans with video cameras — that the world owes the media image of Pussy Riot: anarchic, rebellious, partisan, semi-amateur, whatever one might call it, but above all, an image that carries a message…”
My Gulag
Book series based on the video project of the Gulag History Museum
“In the My Gulag project, people speak about pain, and that pain enters another space. We capture it with our cameras. The number of these stories is enormous. Someday, these stories and documents will acquire the political power to ensure that no one else has to suffer under a repressive state system.”
— Taisiya Krugovykh
“When we were filming Semyon Vilensky, I looked at him and saw a Konenkov sculpture come to life. I felt as though I were touching history, and history was passing through my fingertips. It is probably for moments like these that I work on the My Gulag project.”
— Vasily Bogatov
Cinema as a Visual Code
“In Russia, documentary filmmaking has become a point of entry into cinema for contemporary artists. Given the social and political situation, making a political statement in fiction film is almost impossible, while documentary cinema, like contemporary art, still offers such a possibility.
Thus, the documentary film Pussy vs Putin enjoyed considerable success at international film festivals in 2014. One of its co-authors, Taisiya Krugovykh, graduated from the Rodchenko School, participated in the parallel program of Manifesta 10, and has exhibited in Russian galleries.”
Press
Instruments of Torture: A Film About the Liquidation of Memorial and Its Triumph
“We find ourselves on the chessboard and begin to play.”
Pussy versus Putin, on Arte.tv: “This Youth Had to Be Brought to Heel Before It Spread”
“This activist immersion seen from the inside, with long, turbulent and jostled sequence shots…”