• Sergei Parajanov: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, 1965


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Ukrainian Film Symposium



Free Admission

Cosponsored by the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies; the Armenian Studies Program; and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, UC Berkeley

  • Polina Barskova

    Polina Barskova is an Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley.

  • Harsha Ram

    Harsha Ram is an Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley.

  • Oleksandr Teliuk

    Oleksandr Teliuk is a film scholar, archivist, and artist. He is currently a graduate student at the University of Rochester, New York.

  • Vincent Bohlinger

    Vincent Bohlinger is a Professor in the Department of English and the Film Studies Program at Rhode Island College.

  • Elizabeth Astrid Papazian

    Elizabeth Astrid Papazian is Associate Professor of Cinema & Media Studies and Russian, and a core faculty member of the Program in Comparative Literature at the University of Maryland.

  • Stanislav Menzelevskyi

    Stanislav Menzelevskyi is the former head of the Research and Programming Department at the Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre and is currently a PhD student at the Media School, Indiana University, Bloomington.

  • Bohdan Nebesio

    Bohdan Nebesio is Associate Professor of Film Studies at Brock University, Niagara Region, Canada.

  • Ana Hedberg Olenina

    Ana Hedberg Olenina is an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Media Studies at Arizona State University. 

Ukrainian cinema, grounded in its version of historical modernity and intellectual tradition, was the second-largest film industry among the Soviet republics, gaining international recognition through the contributions of renowned figures such as Oleksandr Dovzhenko, Kira Muratova, and Sergei Parajanov. For a long time, however, Ukrainian cinema was overshadowed internationally by the distribution policies of central bodies such as Sovexportfilm and by Russo-centric narratives. The goal of this symposium is to add nuance and depth to the existing perspectives of Ukrainian Soviet cinema, moving beyond simplistic colonial dichotomies and outdated canons. We will welcome six visiting scholars to join the UC Berkeley campus community to share their ideas and research.

1:00 PM
Introduction, schedule, sponsors information

1:05 PM
Introduction by Polina Barskova

1:15 PM
Oleksandr Teliuk — Ukrainian Film Stock in the Context of Soviet Military Modernization in the 1930s

1:40 PM
Vincent Bohlinger — Average Shot Lengths in Ukrainian Cinema of the 1920s

2:05 PM 
Elizabeth Astrid Papazian — Material Texture and Poetic Form in Boris Ivchenko's Annychka (1968) 

2:30 PM
Q+A with Oleksandr Teliuk, Vincent Bohlinger, and Elizabeth Astrid Papazian, moderated by Polina Barskova

2:50–3:00 PM
Break  

3:00 PM 
Introduction by Harsha Ram

3:10 PM
Stanislav Menzelevskyi — Ivan Kavaleridze: Navigating Socialist Realism 

3:35 PM
Bohdan Nebesio — How to Study the National Cinema of Ukraine? 

4:00 PM
Ana Hedberg Olenina — From Shadows to Limelight: Rediscovering Ukrainian Film History Today

4:25 PM
Q+A with Stanislav Menzelevskyi, Bohdan Nebesio, and Ana Hedberg Olenina, moderated by Harsha Ram

4:45 PM
End

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