FILM: I FOUND MALEVICH - 34:21 minutes

Guided by a muse, an art collector finds a path of redemption as he leaves behind a world of threats, grifters, and shattered lives. Transcendence comes with the realization that this orphaned art lives in its own world and that we must transform ourselves to bear witness to its spiritual message.

Adapted from the essay, I Found Malevich, by Ron Pollard

Comments:

“I heard you on Greg Olear's podcast...fascinating story and beautiful, haunting film. Thank you for sharing your journey!” @halley8890

“Crazy that paint on canvas can pose such a threat to people in power.” @raycin313

“BRAVO! what a captivating brew of avant garde minimalist art, barren landscape imagery, & surreal cinema that would make Luis Buñel proud. Just what I needed this morning!” vicmadrid141

“HAUNTING – Is the story and the presentation. MESMERIZING – Are the works and the visuals. INTRIGUING – Doesn't begin to describe the journey.” - @mattbell8090

“Hybrid film - part documentary, part art film part flow of associations along with music and performance. It's quite a thing. Above all it articulates the agency of painting.” - @pinkasarp2250

“Transcendental..... intriguing.... liminal... dada-esque (The last 15minutes is CAPTIVATING!!!!!) ..... Did you really destroy those works? (Or I'm hoping it's just great editing).” - alexandermoulin7345

"WOW !!! Exceptional. The visuals were amazing. The story amazing, The background amazing. The Stalin - Putin interest in burying the art was fascinating, but then you bring that to the the U.S. Where there are secrets and there is collaboration, etc. And so poetically brought back to your childhood and the nuclear era. I applaud the work. I also applaud the expertise with which this was done. I can't believe that this did not take a studio. But, the eclipse and all else - powerful!!!! In many respects, I am speechless " - Vilis Inde

"Let me say again, it's really amazing because in such elegant simplicity you paint a picture of this great cultural cataclysm that maybe for the first time creates the context for how momentous the moment was in terms of representing the promise of the Revolution and then like the holocost this loud dark slamming of the door into great darkness.  It takes that great cultural political promise and with one thunderclap explains where it all went, just fucking fantastic in my book." - Michel Pariseau

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