The Museum of Miniature Found Objects is proud to present a still from Alexander Rodchenko's 1927 film Moscow: Lost and Found. Sadly this film now exists only in descriptions and in this recently rediscovered film still. The film garnered considerable acclaim at the time for its innovative camera technique and theme. The film's narrative is simple: in the summer of 1927 a group of Komsomolets gather daily in Pushkin Square. Their work and studies finished for the day, they begin their ramble through the city. Essentially the film is a hymn to a rapidly changing Moscow, 10 years after the Revolution. The young men and women stroll, flirt and explore their city, and in the course of their wanderings encounter a number of found objects, each of which tells its own story. In honour of Moscow: Lost and Found, the MMFO has renamed the main entrance the Rodchenko Foyer.
Found objects:
= clear plastic baubles: 2.34pm, Tuesday 14 August 2018, women's changing rooms, Highbury Pool, north London;
= gold plastic cover: 1.38pm, Tuesday 18 September 2018, women's changing rooms, Highbury Pool, north London;
= grey tyre: 11.24am, Thursday 14 July 2011, Old Street, central London;= metal oval: 9.36am, Thursday 20 October 2011, Woodberry Down, north London;
= silver plastic wheel: 7.24pm, Tuesday 23 April 2013, Woodberry Down, north London.
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