Russian cinema in NY city

[Anthony Anemone]

Anyone who's in the NY area this May should be aware of these three
great upcoming programs at the Anthology Film Archives.

MARINA GOLDOVSKAYA: WOMAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA
May 1-3
At the beginning of her seminal video diary, THE SHATTERED MIRROR,
Marina Goldovskaya pans across an impossibly long gas queue to rest on
a man who sits in his idle car. He asks, "Who are you filming this
for, and why?", to which she simply replies, "For history." But for
Goldovskaya, one of Russia's best-known and most celebrated
documentary filmmakers, history is always an investigation in the
moment. Always interweaving the personal and the universal, her work
presents an opportunity to see Russian history unfold 'before your
very eyes.'

Please visit the following link for all dates, times, and details…

http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/schedule/search/search-result/?program=Marina+Goldovskaya%3A+Woman+with+a+Movie+Camera
<http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/schedule/search/search-result/?program=Marina+Goldovskaya%3A+Woman+with+a+Movie+Camera>

THE FILMS OF SERGEI LOZNITSA
May 13-17
Anthology presents the New York City theatrical premiere engagement of
REVUE, the new film by Sergei Loznitsa, one of Russia’s most renowned
documentary filmmakers, alongside a return engagement of Loznitsa’s
acclaimed BLOCKADE, and rare screenings of his earlier work. For both
BLOCKADE and REVUE, Loznitsa scoured Russia’s film archives,
constructing first-hand accounts of the country’s past out of its own
store of audio-visual material. “One person’s propaganda is another
country’s nationalism, and vice versa. This is why the archival
excavations of Sergei Loznitsa are so fascinating, and so important.”

Please visit the following link for all dates, times, and details…

http://www.anthologyfilmarchivesorg/schedule/search/search-result/?program=The+Films+of+Sergei+Loznitsa
<http://www.anthologyfilmarchivesorg/schedule/search/search-result/?program=The+Films+of+Sergei+Loznitsa>

IMPERIAL TRACE: RECENT RUSSIAN CINEMA
May 21-24
This spring sees the publication, by Oxford University Press, of a new
book by Nancy Condee, IMPERIAL TRACE: RECENT RUSSIAN CINEMA, a study
of contemporary Russian film which endeavors to find evidence, both
explicit and implicit, of the country’s imperial legacy. Condee poses
the question of whether these imperial traces are to be found solely
in narrative content – Chechen wars at the periphery, historical
costume dramas of court life – or if they can be detected too in
other, more embedded elements, in the manner and structure of
representation, the conditions of production, the recurring
preoccupations of leading filmmakers, or the ways in which collective
belonging is figured or disfigured. IMPERIAL TRACE organizes these
questions around the work of several contemporary auteurs, including
Nikita Mikhalkov, Aleksei German, Alexander Sokurov, and Aleksei
Balabanov – and Anthology marks its publication with a program of
films by all four filmmakers. A professor at Pittsburgh University and
the founder of the journal, “Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema”,
Nancy Condee will be here in person on Thursday, May 21 to introduce
both screenings. Please join us that evening at 6:15 for a special
reception.

Please visit the following link for all dates, times, and details…
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/schedule/search/search-result/?program=Imperial+Trace%3A+Recent+Russian+Cinema
<http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/schedule/search/search-result/?program=Imperial+Trace%3A+Recent+Russian+Cinema>

Anthology is located at 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10003. Phone
212.505.5181, and website at www.
anthologyfilmarchives.org.

Best, Tony


-- 
Anthony Anemone
Chair & Associate Provost of Foreign Languages
The New School
212-229-5676 ex. 2355

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