Friday Night Film Seminar: The Adventures of Buratino

Please join the NMSU Art Museum for an evening of cinema inspired by Jamie Eisenstein’s “Cameo” where audiences are asked what is real and where does life begin? As an extension of the Fall 2025 course, Performance in Museums, audiences are invited to view the exhibition and join a discussion led by Dr. Megan Metcalf, NMSU professor and co-curator of “Cameo”, before the film. Discussion begins at 5:30 pm and the film will start at 6 pm. The UAM will screen the film in its original Russian language with English subtitles. Popcorn and refreshments provided, but everyone is welcome bring a blanket and pillow.

The Adventures of Buratino is a 1975 Soviet two-part children’s musical that follows Buratino, a boy made of wood, who meets the Karabas Barabas’ theatre actors and sets out to free them. Directed by Leonid Nechayev, the film is an adaptation of “The Golden Key” by Alexey Tolstoy—a story that began as a Soviet translation of Pinocchio before its departure from the original story.