BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk// X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:FILM: Kira Muratova's ETERNAL HOMECOMING (Ukraine\, 2012\, in Rus sian with English subtitles)\, Screening &\; Discussion - Speakers: Eug enie Zvonkine (Paris VIII)\, Nancy Condee (Pittsburgh) and Julian Graffy ( UCL SSEES) DTSTART:20140919T183000Z DTEND:20140919T213000Z UID:TALK54342@talks.cam.ac.uk CONTACT:Susan Larsen DESCRIPTION:Legendary director Kira Muratova's most recent film\, 'Eternal Homecoming' (Vechnoe vozvrashchenie\, Ukraine 2012\, 108 mins) will be sc reened in Russian with English subtitles on Friday\, 19 September\, at 7:3 0 in the Main Lecture Theatre of the Old Divinity School\, St. John's Coll ege (entrance from All Saints' Passage).\n\nSponsored by %{color:blue}*"C ambridge Ukrainian Studies":http://timescape.mml.cam.ac.uk/ref35/*%\, the screening is free and open to the public\, but to be sure of a seat\, plea se %{color:blue}RESERVE YOUR FREE TICKET% via this link:\n*https://muratov a.eventbrite.com*\n\nMuratova has declared that this film\, her 17th full -length feature\, will be her last. Inspired\, she has said\, by her frust ration with overly neat narrative structure\, the film’s minimalist plot consists of ‘eternal returns’ to the same situation: a man visits an old school friend\, a woman whom he knew a long time ago in school\, to as k for advice. Variations on this visit and the ensuing conversation are re peated throughout the film: each time with a different set of actors and i nflections. Shot almost entirely in brilliant black and white\, the film f eatures a pantheon of Muratova’s favorite actors\, among them Alla Demid ova\, Renata Litvinova\, Sergei Makovetskii and Oleg Tabakov\, as well as many of the non-professional actors whom she has used to great effect in h er previous work.\n\nThe film premiered at the Rome Film Festival in 2012 and won the 2013 'Nika' for 'Best Film from the CIS and Baltic States' in 2013. It has screened at many international film festivals in Western and Eastern Europe\, most notably in Rotterdam\, which presented a complete r etrospective of Muratova's work in 2013. The Cambridge screening is the fi lm's first public showing in the UK. \n\nThe film will be introduced by Eu genie Zvonkine (Paris VIII). Discussion following the film will be led by Nancy Condee (Pittsburgh) and Julian Graffy (UCL SSEES). All three hav e written memorably about Muratova's work. It will be a rare treat to hear them in conversation about this remarkable recent film by one of the most important and prolific directors to emerge from the (now former) Soviet U nion.\n\nWe are grateful to the film's producers\, SOTA Cinema Group (Ukra ine)\, for permission to screen the film in Cambridge. The screening is part of a Symposium on "New Directions in Soviet and Post-Soviet Cinema St udies":http://www.kino.group.cam.ac.uk/screening that honours Julian Graff y\, Professor Emeritus of Russian Literature and Cinema Studies at the Sch ool of Slavonic and East European Studies\, University College London. \n\ n*Kira Muratova* was born in Soroki\, Rumania (now Moldova) in 1934. She was educated in Moscow\, where she graduated from the directing faculty of the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography in 1962. She has lived a nd worked almost exclusively in Odessa since moving there to make her firs t feature films in the 1960s. Her early career was difficult: her first three solo efforts were shelved–for alleged violations of Soviet aesthet ic and political norms–and she was unable to make any films during the f inal decade of the Brezhnev era. The political and cultural shifts of per estroika brought new filmmaking possibilities and new audiences\, both in the Soviet Union and abroad: her earlier works were re-released to wide a cclaim and her Aesthenic Syndrome (1989) was hailed as the quintessenti al film of its era\, winning the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and a host of other prizes. Muratova's work has since received major prize s from festivals and arts foundations all over the world. Ukraine claims h er as its most accomplished living filmmaker and has showered her with hon ours. Soviet film historians claim her for their own pantheon of 'greats'\ , as do feminist film scholars. When Western critics encounter her work\, the comparisons they make are with the films of Fellini\, Resnais\, Truff aut\, von Stroheim. Muratova herself\, however\, resists labels and categ ories of all kinds. She doesn't mind\, as she noted in a recent interview \, being called a genius\, but she could get along without any names at al l\, if producers would just come up with the money to make more films.\n\n View subtitled excerpt from film here:\n*http://youtu.be/waAk2ka74-k*\n\n\ n LOCATION:Main Lecture Theatre\, Old Divinity School\, St John's College\, Cambridge END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR