March 13 - April 11, 2026 at Metrograph in NYC // January 7 - March 7, 2026 at Doc Films in Chicago

We’re pleased to co-present a selection of screenings during Boris Barnet, A Soviet Poet, a month-long retrospective dedicated to the boxer-turned-moviemaker and mysterious wonder of intution.

“A great Japanese painter reviewed his life and work as follows: from twenty to forty he did still lifes and landscapes; between forty and sixty he painted birds; then from sixty to eighty geese, ducks, chickens–all sorts of domestic animals. And it was only at the beginning of his hundredth year that he felt ready to portray humans… My ambition has also been to show the place of man in contemporary life. I could and would not wait that long before taking my chance.”

- Boris Barnet

Related texts

A Fickle Man, or Portrait of Boris Barnet as a Soviet Director by Bernard Eisenschitz

On Boris Barnet by Jean-Luc Godard

The New Face of Modesty by Jacques Rivette

Precious Stakhanovite: Bountiful Summer by André Bazin

Schedule coming soon…