Ukrainian Modernism on Screen
When:
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Venue:
Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square
Ukrainian Modernism on Screen 31 May 2024
With a major exhibition of Ukrainian Modernist painters opening at the Royal Academy on 29 June, BIMI surveys the impact of Ukrainians on Soviet cinema’s breakthrough years. FEKS founders Grigori Kozintsev from Kiev and Leonid Trauberg from Odesa may have been the major contributors, with their atmospheric adaptation of Nikolai Gogol’s The Overcoat (1926). But Alexandra Exter designed sensational costumes for the USSR’s first sci-fi extravaganza Aelita, Princess of Mars (1924), while Mykola Shpykovskyi wrote and co-directed the surreal comedy Chess Fever (1925). And in 1926 Alexander Dovzhenko would make his debut made his debut at Odesa’s VUFKU studio. The programme will include Chess Fever and The Overcoat, with extracts from other work.
Contact name:
Matthew Barrington