Ilya and Emilia Kabakov Enter Here (2013)

Like the Kabakovs evocative art Ilya and Emilia KABAKOV ENTER HERE has the sweep of a Russian novel and the immediacy of a family drama It probes arts ability to transcend oppression and exile With extraordinary access the film follows the Sovietborn international art luminaries now US citizens to Putins Moscow as they come face to face with their catastrophic past in the dizzying present For the first time Ilya Kabakov has returned to the hometown where his art was once forbidden to install seven magical walkin installations with his wife and partnerinart Emilia The action ranges from the high plains of Texas to a blighted neighborhood in the Ukraine and climaxes as a sea of flashbulbs illuminate the artists at an opening pronounced historic