Angela Schanelec in person February 7 & 8 German director Angela Schanelec’s films have a rhythm and tone all their own—mysterious yet moving, they unearth the metaphysics rumbling beneath the placid surface of everyday life. Her work with actors is like that of no other filmmaker, a radical approach to performance that draws on her own background in theater traditions…
Join the Harriman Institute and the Russian Film Club for a screening of the 2015 film The Land of Oz, directed by Vasily Sigarev. This event is part of the Russian Cinema Between Protests Film Series, organized by Mark Lipovetsky (Slavic Department) and Daria Ezerova (Harriman Institute). The film has a runtime of 100 minutes and will be presented with English subtitles. SYNOPSIS: Blending Gogolian satire with absurdist poetics, this…
The Ukrainian Film Club of Columbia University presents a screening of the new documentary film The Earth Is Blue as an Orange (2020) followed by a Q&A with director Iryna Tsilyk. Russian and Ukrainian with English subtitles. Film runtime: 74 minutes. Anna is a single mother living under siege with her four children in the war zone of Donbas, Ukraine. While there are…