Mini-museum of the artist David Burliuk

2007, Sumy Regional State Television and Radio Company. A programme from the series ‘Fellow Countrymen’ dedicated to the futurist artist David Burliuk.

The video features: opening credits, a mini-museum of the artist, landscapes of the village of Ryabushky and Lebedynshchyna, museum exhibits, a reproduction of the painting ‘Rainy Morning,’ the Semyrotivka farmstead (removed from the register in the 1990s, now the Burliuk tract), the artist's granddaughter takes a clod of earth from her grandfather's homeland as a souvenir.

Comments: Lidiya Kravchenko, history teacher at the Ryabushky village school; scientist Oleksandr Parnis; art historian Dmytro Gorbachev; David Burliuk's granddaughter Mary Burliuk-Holt.

Reference: David Burliuk was a Ukrainian and American avant-garde artist, poet and art theorist, and one of the founders of futurism. He was born in the Kharkiv region, studied at art schools in Odessa, Munich and Paris, and later emigrated to the United States. His work combines elements of cubism, futurism and folk art.