The Grenelle Agreements
Video, 22:25 min, 2009
In 2009 art-critic, writer and anthropologist David Riff joined the team of ”Learning Film Group” – at that time constituted by Evgeny Fiks, Nikolai Oleinikov and Ilya Budraitskis to make a new video on another episode of 1968 – the so called Grenelle Agreements. After student demonstrations and massive strike actions had rocked France and the rest of Europe during May 1968, the leadership of the French Communist Party and its affiliated trade unions in the General Confederation of Labour sought out a compromise with the government. The ”Learning Film Group” have been researching this history along with a group of restaurant workers from the Shopping Center in Moscow.
Artist's Bio:
A historian, culture and political activist, living and working in Moscow. From 1997 an active leftist. In 2001 – 2004 he was organizer of Russian contingents on mobilizations against G8, European and World Social Forums. In 2003 – 2006 he worked for Institute for Globalization Studies. Since 2011 – Budraitskis is the spokesperson for Russian Socialist movement. Since 2005 he has been collaborating with David Ter-Oganyan and Alexandra Galkina in collective artprojects and exhibitions. Their works are presented in the collections of Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art and Luigi Pecci Museum (Prato, Italy). As a member of the “Learning film group”, Budraitskis participated in the 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (2011) and in several international exhibitions.