REIMAGINING HISTORY THROUGH FILM: Film and Lecture Series by Evgeny Tsymbal

Starts: November 9, 2009 at 5:00 PM
Location: Blow Hall 332
Contact: [[axprok]]

Summary

Public Lecture: SEER OR CINEMATOGRAPHER?: THE MAKING OF ANDREI TARKOVSKY's

Full Description

Russian Filmmaker and Historian Evgeny Tsymbal, a renowned filmmaker who started his career working as director's assistant on Andrey Tarkovsky’s The Stalker, challenges the notion of Tarkovsky as a Romantic, spiritual genius-prophet and offers his own iterpretation of the filmmaker’s identity-- a collaborative, process-based, slightly conceptual artist more amenable to an age of relational aesthetics.

EVGENY TSYMBAL began his work at the Mosfilm Studios in Moscow in the 1970's and worked in production and as an assistant director in films by Andrei Tarkovsky. Commencing his own film career with a variety of short films, Tsymbal acheived critical acclaim with the prize-winning short Defence Council Sedov (46 mins) and continued this success with The Tale of the Unextinguished Moon (1990). His recent work includes documentary films Dziga and his Brothers (2002) and Red Zion (2006).

In addition to directing, Tsymbal has continued his work as a scriptwriter, historian and journalist publishing articles in journals including Sight and Sound, Premier, Artes, New Statesman and Chaplin.

Sponsored by
The College of Arts and Sicences
The Russian and Post-Soviet Studies Program, The Literary and Cultural Studies Program, and The Film Studies Program