Кино Клуб: The Russian Film Series at CU Boulder
Spring 2021: Educating New People: Children and Young Adults Against Institutions

Join us for online screenings and discussions.

To view films and to attend Zoom discussions, please RSVP to anastasiya.osipova@colorado.edu

Schedule:

Thursday, 02/25 4pm. SPECIAL EVENT: Anton Ginzburg, Turo (2016)

A Screening and a discussion with Anton Ginzburg, Ksenia Nouril, Anastasiya Osipova, and Jeanne Liotta

Anton Ginzburg, a New-York based, Russian-born artist and filmmaker, will introduce his artistic practice and research into the Soviet modernism and screen Turo (2016, 35 minutes), a film exploring post-Soviet geography, Constructivist architecture, and the significance of Soviet avant-garde modernist legacy and its dreams of universalism for American culture today. The screening will be followed by conversation between Ginzburg, art curator and scholar of Eastern European and global contemporary art Ksenia Nouril, filmmaker Jeanne Liotta (Associate Professor of Cinema Studies and Moving Image Arts, CU Boulder), and scholar Anastasiya Osipova (Assistant Professor of Slavic Studies at CU Boulder). 

Thursday, 03/11 6:30 pm. Nikolai Ekk, Road to Life (1931)
Young thugs are brought to a new camp to become good Soviet citizens. This experiemental camp does not have any guards or punishments. The film won an award at the 1932 Venice International Film Festival. 

Thursday, 03/26 6:30 pm. Valeriy Todorovsky, Country of the Deaf (1998)
A film about an unusual relationship between two women: a deaf dancer Yaya and Rita, who is on the run from the mafia. Yaya offers to hide and protect Rita, but in return she wants them to run off to an imaginary paradise–a country of the deaf–where material values do not exist. 

Friday, 04/08 6:30 pm. Nikolai Gubenko, Wounded Game (1977)
A writer tries to come to terms with a childhood spent as an orphan during World War II.

Thursday, 04/22 6:30 pm. Egor Abramenko, Sputnik (2020)
A retro sci-fi film set in 1983. (Think Russian Stranger Things). Soviet cosmonaut returns to Earth bringing with him an alien creature hidden in his body. In the secret laboratory of the regime city, a neurophysiologist specializing in young adult development Tatyana Klimova tries to save the astronaut from the monster inside him and the totalitarian system taking advantage of him.