From Russia With Love

“From Russia with Love is a postcard from Red Square, a poetic message to the artist’s mother over a stirring musical backdrop of Russian folk music. Shot in a studio using chromakey backgrounds, Urch presents a series of simple tableaux and actions that impart the delight of the tourist while making adroit comparisons between the cultures of Communism and Capitalism, between the religion of Catholicism and the religion of the State.(Re-scann. New York. Programmes notes by Jeremy Welsh.)