Film Discussions
TMORA will host two seminars on topics in Russian cinema, hosted and facilitated by Mike Bailey a TMORA docent with a B.S. in Film Studies from Northwestern University and an M.A. in Film Studies from the University of Iowa, with an emphasis in Cold War cinema. The Seminars will be held at TMORA and are free to TMORA members.
Attendance is limited and reservations are required: Email Lynda Holker
Saturday, October 27, 2007, 2 p.m.
"Italian Neorealism and Korzhev's Populist Aesthetic"
Korzhev has cited the postwar films of Italy as an influence on his generation of Russian artists. This seminar will provide an overview of Italy'spremierfilm movement, its emphasis on the sorrows and joysof ordinary people, and its extension both into Korzhev's painting and the Soviet cinema of the Khrushchev period.
Tuesday, November 13, 2007, 7 p.m.
"Rupture: Dark Fantasy and Dissolution in Post-Soviet Cinema"
The bleak nature of Korzhev's later work finds its complement in Russian cinema of the 1980s to the present. Under Gorbachev's glasnost policy, Soviet filmmakers exercised new freedoms to criticize and reflect on the nation's history. This trend continued through the 1990s and early 2000s as film artists experimented with genre and allegory to make sense of their new post-Soviet circumstances, simultaneously diminished and expanded.