Break-Up Habit

[Привычка расставаться] Russia, 2013 Color, 90 minutes In Russian, with English subtitles Director: Ekaterina Telegina Scriptwriter: Vasilii Rovenskii Camera: Ivan Lebedev Music: Maksim Golovin Cast: Alena Konstantinova, Danila  Kozlovskii, Elizaveta Boiarskaia, Polina Filonenko, Aleksandra Tiuftei, Aleksandr Petrov, Aleksei Filimonov, Petr Rykov, Karlo Lavan’ia, Petr Fedorov Producers: Vasilii Rovenskii, Anastasiia Akopian, Ekaterina Kabak A recent graduate of MGU, Eva has a …

Ajaja

Programmer/selector since 1997 for the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF), a 25 day film festival of over 400 films, which includes features, documentaries, archival films, animation, experimental and short films. Ajaja is a writer and a poet and specializes in films from Eastern/Central Europe, Russia, Baltics and Central Asia. Born in Hollywood, she has lived in Moscow and Saint Petersburg …

Гендер и жанры

In English Несмотря на то, что количество посещений кинотеатров в России сегодня все еще не приблизилось к самому своему высокому результату, который наблюдался в советский период и составлял 16 посещений в год, в последнее время наблюдалось существенное улучшение того положения, которое было в России в течение 15-ти постсоветских лет, когда показатель посещаемости кинотеатров достиг своего минимума – одного посещения в …

Viktoriia Belopol’skaia

Victoria Belopolskaya began to work as a film critic for leading Russian medias after graduating from Moscow State University (Faculty of Journalism) in 1986,. Over the years she has published more than 300 pieces on different genres in the Russian press. She is currently a staff film observer for the Russian edition of Psychologies, a monthly publication. In addition to …

Anzhelika Artiukh

Anzhelika Artyukh lives in Saint-Petersburg, Russia.  She graduated from The State Academy of Theater as well as the Russian Institute of Art History (Department of Cultural Studies).  She has been working as a film critic since 1994.  Her articles have been published in several Russian professional film journals, including Iskusstvo kino, Seans, Kinovedcheskie zapiski, Film Comment, OpenSpace, Imago, and Kommersant”—Vlast’. …

Kiun Hwang

Kiun Hwang holds a B.A. in Russian language and literature from Yonsei University in Seoul (2005) and an M.A. in Russian language and literature from Yonsei University in Seoul (2008). She is currently writing the Ph.D dissertation about transformations of St. Petersburg’s urban landscape and its representations with a focus on the search for a new post-Soviet identity at University of Pittsburgh in …

Nancy Condee

Slavic Department; Director of Global Studies (Title VI NRC). Publications include The Imperial Trace: Recent Russian Cinema (Oxford, 2009); Antimonies of Art and Culture: Modernity, Postmodernity, Contemporaneity, co-edited with Terry Smith and Okwui Enwezor (Duke, 2008); Endquote: Sots-Art Literature and Soviet Grand Style, co-edited with Marina Balina and Evgeny Dobrenko (Northwestern UP, 2000); Soviet Hieroglyphics: Visual Culture in Late 20c. Russia, ed. (BFI/Indiana UP, 1995). …

Gendering Genre

While Russian cinema attendance today cannot rival the annual 16 per capita visits of Soviet years, it is greatly improved since the first fifteen years of the Russian Federation, when attendance dropped below one annual visit.  Today younger Russians (18 to 30) go to films seven or more times a year, while older viewers (30 to 50) slightly less than …