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CANCELLED due to UCU strike: Workshop: Kira Muratova
Monday February 24, 2020
Workshop on Soviet/Ukrainian female film director Kira Muratova, 24 February 2020.
Please plan joining us for a workshop + screening to celebrate the work of remarkable Soviet/Ukrainian feminist director Kira Muratova (1934-2018)
5 – 9 pm, 24 February 2020.
School 1 (in The Quads), University of St Andrews.
Kira Muratova, who worked mostly in the Ukrainian city of Odessa, is one of the most innovative, imaginative, exciting and versatile directors to emerge out of the Soviet Union, where her early films were censored and her later work – celebrated. Whilst she is well known within the territory of Russia and Ukraine, her work – an oeuvre that comprises more than fifteen feature films made over six decades — remains little seen and not widely recognized as part of the shaping feminist cannon of film history. With the workshop Kira Muratova@St Andrews, co organized by the IGCCC and CRSCEES, we aim to compensate for this.
We will screen her film KOROTKIE VSTRECHI/BRIEF ENCOUNTERS (1967), followed by discussion. This is Muratova’s first solo-directed feature film, made at Odessa studios, starring Nina Ruslanova, Vladimir Visotsky, and Kira Muratova herself, B&W, 87 min.
In addition, we will welcome contributions from Dr. Victoria Donovan and Prof. Dina Iordanova (St Andrews), Irina Schulzki (convener of the Kira Muratova Research group/LMU Munich), Dr Masha Shpolberg (Yale/Wellesley), critic/independent scholar Giuliano Vivaldi. We also hope that Muratova’s husband, artist Evgeny Golubenko, who designed the magnificent ornate sets for most of her later films, will join us for discussion via SKYPE, TBC.