Film at the Institute: Scenographies of Chaos: Kira Muratova’s Critical Filmmaking

In partnership with Faktura 10, Film at the Institute will host a panel discussion Kira Muratova: Scenographies of Chaos on the sidelines of the Film at Lincoln Center retrospective honoring Kira Muratova. 

Kira Muratova (1934–2018) was a formidable and independent Ukrainian film director whose work was challenged by state authorities throughout the Soviet period. In the late 1980s, her films were uncensored and will be introduced to international audiences with this posthumous American retrospective from May 16–25 at Film at Lincoln Center, in New York.

At the UIA, the panel of scholars and critics will gather to speak about Muratova’s cinematographic sensibility with regard to time, truth telling, self-deceit, ecology, labor, feminism, psychology, and politics, and how the critical and philosophical implications of Muratova’s filmmaking can be a way to relaunch scholarship around her films and inscribe her historical legacy within modern film history

Kira Muratova: Scenographies of Chaos is curated by Marta Kuzma and Ivan Kozlenko, in cooperation with The Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre, Kyiv, and co-organized by Madeline Whittle. The retrospective is part of Faktura 10, an initiative of RIBBON International, and is co-organized with The Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre and Janus Films.

Panelists:

• Marta Kuzma, Professor of Art, Yale School of Art and Artistic Director and Chief Curator, Faktura 10
• Vitaly Chernetsky, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature, University of Kansas
• Ivan Kozlenko, Film Scholar and Writer, Film and Screen Studies, Cambridge University
• David Molina, University of Chicago
• Viktoria Paranyuk, Lecturer in the Department of Film and Screen Studies, Pace University
• Irina Schulzki, Film and Literature Scholar, University of Munich and Publishing Director of Apparatus: Film, Media and Cultures in Central and Eastern Europe