2005 Schedule
Mon.
Morning
Iurii Grymov's The Mastermind (2001) [100 min]
Discussants: Petre Petrov, Liubov' Arkus
Afternoon
Andrei Konchalovskii's House of Fools (2002) [104 min]
Discussants: Marcia Landy, Evgenii Margolit
Tue.
Morning
Andrei Nekrasov's Disbelief (2004) [105 min]
Discussants: Alyssa DeBlasio, Aleksandr Deriabin
Afternoon
Evgenii Iufit's Bipedalism (2005) [90 min]
Graduate Student Panel*:
Frenzy and Folly: Madness in Russian Cinema
Thomas Campbell (Yale University): "The Bioaesthetics of Evgenii Iufit"
Gennady Denisenko (University of Virginia): "Vl. Solovyov in Shakhnazarov's Subtext: Insanity of Death or Death of Insanity in Books of Life"
Jeremi Szaniawski (Yale University): "Dementia, alienation, and insanity in transmodern Russian cinema: Moloch and Taurus by Aleksandr Sokurov"
Wed.
Morning
Anna Melikian's Mars (2004) [100 min]
Discussants: Elena Prokhorova, Tim Schlak
Afternoon
Ol'ga Stolpovskaia and Dmitrii Troitskii's You I Love (2004) [85 min]
Discussants: Gerald McCausland, Mark Lynn Anderson
Evening
Pittsburgh Filmmakers: Pavel Chukhrai's A Driver for Vera (2004) [114 min]
Introducer: Vladimir Padunov
Thur.
Morning
Aleksandr Veledinskii's Russian (2004) [115 min]
Discussants: Alexander Prokhorov, Seth Graham
Afternoon
Visit to Frank Lloyd Wright's Falling Water
Evening
Pittsburgh Filmmakers: Dmitrii Meskhiev's Our Own (2004) [100 min]
Introducer: Pavel Kuznetsov
Fri.
Morning
Vadim Abdrashitov's Magnetic Storms (2003) [93 min] Discussants: Michelle Kuhn, Pavel Kuznetsov
Afternoon
Il'ia Khrzhanovskii's 4 (2004) [126 min]
Discussants: Julie Draskoczy, Anton D'Auria
Evening
Pittsburgh Filmmakers: Kira Muratova's The Tuner (2004) [154 min]
Introducer: Nancy Condee
Sat.
Morning
Closing roundtable at Hemingway's
Led by: Liubov' Arkus, Nancy Condee, and Aleksandr Deriabin
Evening
Pittsburgh Filmmakers: Valerii Todorovskii's My Stepbrother Frankenstein (2004) [111 min]
Introducer: Evgenii Margolit