David Burliuk and the Japanese Avant-garde:

In 1920 David Burliuk left Russia to emigrate to America via Japan where he spent two years until 1922. While in Japan he cooperated with the emerging Japanese futurist movement, putting on joint exhibitions with the Sanko and Mavo art movements of Japan, writing several books and painting.

Using archive footage and locations in Japan, this film is a chronicle of Burliuk's time in Japan.

DVD Cover "David Burliuk and the Japanese Avant-garde"

One of Burliuks pictures which he painted on Ogaswara, a Japanese Island in the Pacific ocean for several months.

Still from the film - the view today of the above painting

Another still from Ogasawara

Painting by Burliuk in Japan

Photograph of Japanese avant-garde exhibition piece in Tokyo

Tokyo - still from film

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