The Edges of Cinema

Lecture, Film
02.12.2023 – 10.12.2023
Tselinny Temporary (159 Zheltoksan Street)

The Edges of Cinema is public lectures where speakers reveal different aspects of cinema. A look beyond conventional film studies and the usual understanding of cinema, blurring the notion of good taste, demonstration of experiments with form, telling a story of bold ideas and people changing this art form. 

The first series includes lectures on Lloyd Kaufman's thrash films, the contemporary video essay, the expanded cinema of Pedro Costa, Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Albert Serra, docufiction and the female gaze in cinema.

2/12/2023 | 16:00

Thrash, art, and cinema: Notes on Lloyd Kaufman and his place in the «pantheon» of American cinema — Alem Dauletkulov

A lecture on the phenomenon of one of the most marginal American directors of the 20th century, who could simultaneously shock, entertain, and disgust

03/12/2023 | 16:00

(Non)cinematic narrative: the modern video essay — Andrey Kachalyan

A lecture on the history of the genre's origins and analysis of the main ways of visual tools in the context of contemporary video essayism

09/12/2023 | 15:30

The Expanded Cinema: Costa, Serra and Weerasethakul — Amir Mussayev

A lecture on how Pedro Costa, Albert Serra and Apitchatpon Weerasethakul have changed the cinema, and what contemporary cinema and art have in common

09/12/2023 | 17:00

Documentary Manifestations in Cinema Tissue, or Why Docufiction is a Future of Cinema — Eva Murashko

A lecture on how documentary manifestations bare the nature of cinema, and why docufiction is more effective in unlocking its inexhaustible potential than anything else

10/12/2023 | 14:00

Female gaze: what is the specificity of the female gaze and feminist theory in cinema — Malika Mukhamejan

A lecture on women's cinema theory and the influence of female filmmakers on shaping narratives

Film screening after the lecture — QYZQARAS:

History of Civilization: directed by Zhannat Alshanova

Little Love: directed by Aizhan Kassymbek

Swallow: directed by Malika Mukhamejan

Algiz: directed by Kristina Mihailova

Two Bicycles: directed by Katerina Suvorova

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