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Mother Tongue
Apparition of the Last Soviet Artist in London
ShadowMemory x Art Night Open
Postponed Futures
Superwoman: ‘Work, Build and Don’t Whine'
Unexpected Eisenstein
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Rachel Morley:
Russian Cinema before 1917 -
Ian Christie:
Besides Eisenstein: Protazanov, Barnet and the new Soviet cinema of the 1920s -
Ian Christie:
Maxim and co: creating the new heroes and heroines of the 1930s -
Phil Cavendish:
Soviet Colour Film, 1929-1945: An Experiment Understood by Very Few -
Jeremy Hicks:
Meaningful Martyrdom — Death, Revolution and Victory from Lenin to the Reichstag, 1924–45 -
Emma Widdis:
Film and the Making of the New Soviet Person: Bodies, Minds and Feelings -
Ian Christie:
Hopes and fears: the Soviet New Wave of the 1960s -
Carmen Gray:
Andrei Tarkovsky: The Citizen Poet and the State -
Jeremy Hicks:
Reusing War Footage in Russian and Soviet Films, 1945–2015
Peripheral Visions
A Game in Hell. The Great War in Russia
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John E. Bowlt:
Introductory remarks -
Elena Sudakova:
'Forgotten Heroes of the Great War' -
Christina Lodder:
'A Painting Fit for Heroes: Kazimir Malevich's Reservist of the First Division' -
Natalia Budanova:
'Who Needs the Art Now?': Russian Women Artists Representing the Great War' -
Valentina Parisi:
'Russian Avant-Garde Circles and the Literary Response to the Great War'
Work and Play Behind the Iron Curtain
The Shabolovka Tower Model
Kino/Film: Soviet Posters of the Silent Screen
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Curators and Special Guests:
Panel Discussion with Exhibition -
Lutz Becker:
Curator talks: Chess Fever and The Three Million Case -
Lutz Becker:
Curator talks: Man with a Movie Camera -
Lutz Becker:
Curator talks: October -
Lutz Becker:
Curator talks: Storm Over Asia and Turksib -
Lutz Becker:
Curator talks: The End of St Petersburg -
Elena Sudakova:
Soviet Posters of the Silent Screen
Utopia LTD
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'Inside the Rainbow' Performance:
Directed by Irina Brown -
Professor John Milner:
Seminar: 'Re-Constructivism' -
Willem Jan Renders:
Seminar: 'After Lissitzky: Reconstructions at the Van Abbemuseum' -
Christina Lodder:
Seminar: 'Gustav Klucis: Transmitting Utopia' -
Aleksandr Shklyaruk:
Seminar: 'Klucis and the Materialisation of a Futurist Idea' -
Dr. Maria Tsantsanoglou:
Seminar: 'Tatlin's Legend'
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Superwoman: ‘Work, Build and Don’t Whine'
Unexpected Eisenstein
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A Game in Hell. The Great War in Russia
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Aleksandr Litvinov
(1898–1977)
Aleksandr Litvinov was a film director, script writer and pioneer of Soviet ethnographical film. Born in Baku in 1898, he studied medicine at the Baku University but decided to change his life and career upon meeting director Iakov Protazanov and prominent actor Ivan Mozhukhin in 1918. His screenwriting debut took place that same year with the release of Protazanov’s A Member of Parliament. In 1920 Litvinov moved to Petrograd and began work as director’s assistant at Sevzapkino before returning to Baku in 1923 where he took up residence as head of Azgoskino studio where he began directing his first feature films. Between 1927 and 1937 he expanded his directorial career at Sovkino creating the films Oil (1927), In the Wilderness of the Ussuriisk Region (1928) and The Forest People (1928), which garnered popularity both within and beyond the Soviet Union. From 1938 to 1948 he directed at the Novosibirsk film studio of educational films before leaving to work for a documentary film studio in Sverdlovsk (today Ekaterinburg).
Perhaps Litvinov’s greatest contribution was his pioneering use of ethno-fiction in the Soviet Union, alternatively called ‘Soviet Flaherty’ in reference to Robert Joseph Flaherty, an American pioneer of the genre. His works include numerous documentaries about the Russian Far East and Taiga as well as several books on the subject. In the latter stages of his career he was a head of the Sverdlovsk branch of the Union of Cinematographers and continued working in the film industry up until 1970s. He died in Sverdlovsk in 1977.
