FEKS

Eccentric Manifesto, 1922/1992, Log, PDF, GIF.

The Factory of the Eccentric Actor (FEKS) was founded in 1921 in Petrograd by Grigori Kozintsev (1905–1972) and Leonid Trauberg (1902–1990) and combined the training of actors with collective artistic production in theatre and film. The FEKS group perceived Eccentrism as a new direction within the avant-garde that sought to find a place between Futurism, Surrealism and Dada.

Publications

• Ekstsentrizm [Эксцентризм], Petrograd, 1922. [1] (Russian)
  • Eccentric Manifesto, trans. & intro. Marek Pytel, London: Eccentric Press, 1992, 22 pp. (English)

Selected texts

• Futurism / Formalism / FEKS: Eccentrism and Soviet Cinema, 1918-36, eds. Ian Christie and John Gillett, London: British Film Institute, 1978, 74 pp. Published to accompany a 1978 season at the National Film Theatre, London, Russian Eccentrics. (English)

Literature

• Viktor Shklovsky (Виктор Шкловский), "O rozhdenii i zhizni Faksov" [О рождении и жизни Факсов], in Shklovsky, Gamburgsky svet [Гамбургский счет], Leningrad, 1928; repr. in Shklovsky, Za sorok let [За сорок лет], Moscow, 1965. (Russian)
• Vladimir Nedobrovo (Владимир Недоброво), FEKS: Grigoriy Kozintsov, Leonid Trauberg [ФЭКС: Григорий Козинцов, Леонид Трауберг], Moscow/Leningrad, 1928, 79 pp. (Russian)
• E.S. Dobin (Е.С. Добин), Kozintsev i Trauberg [Козинцев и Трауберг], Leningrad/Moscow, 1963. (Russian)
• Yuri Tynyanov (Юрий Тынянов), "O feksakh" [О фэксах], in Poetika. Istoriya literatury. Kino [Поэтика. История литературы. Кино], Moscow: Nauka, 1977, pp 346-348. (Russian)
• "FEKS i ekstsentrizm: materialy mezhdunar. konf." [ФЭКС и эксцентризм: Материалы междунар. конф.], Kinovedcheskie zapiski [Киноведческие записки] 7, Moscow, 1990. (Russian)
• Oksana Bulgakowa, "Das Phänomen FEKS: Boulevardisierung der Avantgarde", Montage / AV 2:1 (1993), pp 94-115. (German)
• Oksana Bulgakowa, FEKS: Die Fabrik des Exzentrischen Schauspielers, Berlin: Potemkin Press, 1996, 304 pp. [2] (German)
• Natalia Nusinova (Наталья Нусинова), "'Vneshtorg na Eyfelevoy bashne'. Kommentarii k spektaklyu FEKSa skvoz' teksty epokhi i svidetel'stva" [«Внешторг на Эйфелевой башне». Комментарии к спектаклю ФЭКСа сквозь тексты эпохи и свидетельства], in Mnemozina. Dokumenty i fakty iz istorii russkogo teatra KHKH veka [Мнемозина. Документы и факты из истории русского театра ХХ века], ed. V.V. Ivanov, Moscow: GITIS, 1996, pp 196-210. (Russian)
• Cosima Ulrike Sindlhofer, "Die Fabrik des Exzentrischen Schauspielers (FEKS)", ch. 2.3.1 in Sindlhofer, Amerikanismus: Weimarer Republik und sowjetische Filmavantgarde, Vienna: University of Vienna, 2008, 49-58. Master's thesis. (German)

Encyclopedic entries

• I.V. Sepman, "Factory of Eccentricity", Saint Petersburg Encyclopedia, n.d. (Russian)}
• Jan-Christopher Horak, "FEKS (Fabrik des Exzentrischen Schauspielers)", Lexikon der Filmbegriffe, 1 Aug 2011. (German)

Documentary

• FEKS, dir. Oleg Kovalov, 2003, 38 min. [3] (Russian)

Links

• FEKS at Russian Wikipedia