Ukrainian avant-garde in film: unknown Kyiv of 1929. Screening and talk
Date and time:
Wednesday 7 June, 2017
18:30 - 20:00
Location:
Bertha Dochouse Screen, Curzon Bloomsbury
Brunswick Centre
London
WC1N 1AW
The event will present an almost lost documentary film by Mikhail Kaufman, a brother, cameraman and a co-author of Dziga Vertov. Shoot in Kyiv and produced by All-Ukrainian Photo-Cinema Directorate in 1929, this avant-garde film is a cinematic poem to the arrival of spring in nature as well as a new life in a society. With the first use of hidden camera, it also offers a rare glimpse of everyday life in Soviet Ukraine during NEP and “indigenisation” policy, short-lived policies of the Soviet State.
The screening will be followed by a talk by Stanislav Menzelevskyi, a Programme Director from Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre, Ukraine's largest cinematheque.
This event is held in partnership with Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre and Bertha DocHouse.
This event will be held in Ukrainian and English.
£12.50 standard / £10 concessions
Speaker
Stanislav Menzelevskyi
Stanislav Menzelevskyi is Head of Research and Programming Department, Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Center. He received a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Cultural Studies from National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Akademy”. He is an ex-member of the Editorial Board of Political Critique, Commons, and ProStory magazines. Co-founder and member of Editorial Board of Medusa publishing house. As Head of Research and Programming Department at the Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Center, he researches silent and sound soviet cinema, writes articles on cinematic and cultural topics, organises film screenings and retrospectives (in 2015, curated Ukrainian Avant-garde retrospective at Arsenal film center, Berlin). He Co-authored Atomopolis. Assembling Utopia (2016). In 2013, was a Carnegie visiting scholar at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University.
