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LANDSCAPE CINEMA: POETICS AND POLITICS

October 17 – October 19

October 17-19, 2024

This three-day program of contemporary cinema highlights a range of formally and stylistically innovative approaches to filmmaking, which posit landscapes as decisive sites, vehicles, and agents of political exploration, engagement, and struggle. The program consists of twelve films made during the past fifteen years – features and shorts, documentaries, docufiction, and experimental works. Some of these contend with problems of nationalism and racism, war, systemic oppression, and genocide. Some contemplate the socialist past, the ubiquitous capitalist present, and possible futures. Some focus on home and displacement, memory, loss, and imagination, friendship, solidarity and resistance. Together, the films in the series uphold the emancipatory value of the landscape – and the landscape shot – as both a communal and a personal affair.

Curated by Pavle Levi.

This program is made possible through the generous support of the Department of Art & Art History, Office of the Vice President for the Arts, and Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at Stanford University, as well as the East Central European Center at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University.

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