By Stanislav Menzelevskyi, Graduate Student, The Media School Sergei Loznitsa is one of the most prolific and most recognized post-Soviet Ukrainian film directors. His feature fiction and documentary films are regularly screened and awarded at A-class film festivals around the world. Born in Belarus, he moved to the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, where he finished high… Read more »
Tag: Russian documentary
Film Screening “Kolyma: Road of Bones”
By Eliza Frenkel, Graduate Student, Anthropology In the old Soviet comedy “The Diamond Arm” (1969) the following saying became very popular among Soviet citizens. — Будете у нас на Колыме, милости просим. — When you will be in Kolyma, you are so welcome.— — Нет уж, лучше вы к нам. — No, you’d better come to… Read more »
Film Screening: “Truba” (“Pipeline”)
By Andrey Yushkov, Graduate Student, O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs On September 23, Truba (Pipeline), an award-winning documentary by Vitaly Mansky, became the first screening in the RSW Documentary Film Series Power, Poetics, and Play: Documenting Soviet Legacies. The documentary explores the lives of various communities along the pipeline which transports gas from… Read more »
Film Screening: “VOY”
By Iain Cunningham, Graduate Student, Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures It is not often that we are confronted by a genre of film that bears familiarity to us while maintaining its ability to instill contemplation, to appear to us as strange and novel. VOY is certainly such a film. Directed by… Read more »
Film Screening: “Budynok”
By Iain Cunningham, Graduate Student, Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures Russian Studies Workshop screened a film entitled Budynok, or “Building,” in Ukrainian. The directors of the film, Tatjana Kononenko and Matilda Mester, were able to speak with us about the film and answer some of our questions. To call Budynok a… Read more »