Shooting the Revolution
Film Screening Series
The Great October Socialist Revolution also brought revolutionary changes to Russian cinema. In a series of screenings entitled “Shooting the Revolution”, we will examine how the new ideological content gave rise to new cinematic languages through the films of Dziga Vertov and Sergei Eisenstein, among others.
January 25, 2017
Sergei Eisenstein, October (1927–1928)
Described by the director as “the first embryonic step towards a totally new form of film expression,” October was and remains a film of multiple challenges.
February 22, 2017
Dziga Vertov, A Sixth Part of the World (1926)
Vertov’s spatially most ambitious film, “A Sixth Part of the World”, is both a visual experiment with ways of representing a new form of supra-ethnic unity and a novel form of travelogue.
March 16, 2017
Soviet Propaganda Animation 1.
The first screening in a 2-part program of Soviet propaganda animation offers an insight into the ways of creatively packaging Bolshevik ideology, implemented with a variety of animation techniques from the time after the revolution.
May 3, 2017
Animated Soviet Propaganda 2.
The second screening in a 2-part program of Soviet propaganda animation offers an insight into the ways of creatively packaging Bolshevik ideology, implemented with a variety of animation techniques from the period after WW2.
June 14, 2017
Mikhail Kalatozov, The Salt of Svanetia (1930)
“Salt for Svanetia” is a haunting portrait of a village in the remote, snowbound region of Caucasus, Svaneti by Mikhail Kalatozov.
In the framework of the one-year program series “What's Left?”.