This event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar and streamed via YouTube Live. There will be no in-person event.
To register and access live stream links, visit the event page on our website: https://harriman.columbia.edu/event/women-and-silent-screen-online-entracte
The Harriman Institute is pleased to cosponsor this segment of the virtual conference Women and the Silent Screen Online: Entr'acte, June 2-6, 2021. Women and the Silent Screen (WSS), a biennial international conference, has been a hub for the exchange of research focused on all forms of women’s involvement during the earliest decades of film history. Program II: Founding Mothers: Women Filmmakers of Early Soviet Documentary is organized by Daria Ezerova and Anastasia Kostina.
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PROGRAM II. Founding Mothers: Women Filmmakers of Early Soviet Documentary
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PANEL #1. The Art of Recycling: Early Soviet Compilation Film
Friday, June 4, 9:00am-11:00am ET
Chair: Anastasia Kostina
Participants: Lilya Kaganovsky (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Anastasia Kostina (Yale University), Joshua Malitsky (Indiana University), Oksana Sarkisova (Central European University)
ONLINE SCREENING: Segodnya / Today (Cannons or Tractors?)
Friday, June 4, 7:00pm–9:30pm ET
Introduction: Anastasia Kostina
Segodnya / Today (Cannons or Tractors?). Dir.: Esfir Shub (Sovkino and Weltfilm, USSR, 1930). Sc.: Esfir Shub and Mark Tseitlin. RT: 75 min. Source Archive: RGAKFD.
PANEL #2. Women in Silent Soviet Documentary
Sunday, June 6, 12:00pm-2:00pm ET
Chair: Daria Ezerova (Columbia University)
Participants: John MacKay (Yale University), Natalie Ryabchikova (Higher School of Economics, Russia), Raisa Sidenova (Newcastle University)
Includes Screenings:
Tungusy / Tungus (Elizaveta Svilova, USSR, 1927). RT: 12 min. Source Archive: RGAKFD.
Bukhara (Elizaveta Svilova, USSR, 1927). RT: 11 min. Source Archive: RGAKFD.