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Wed23 Jul04:30pm(15 mins)
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Where:
Room 7
Presenter:
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A Room and a Half (film) and the Art of Cinematic Life Writing.
A Room and a Half (2009) directed by Andrei Khrzhanovskii, offers a reflective journey into the formative years of Josef Brodsky. By focusing on the poly-stylistic features of the work, the paper discusses it through the framework of poetic cinema (in Viktor Shklovsky’s sense of the term). Apart from exploring the conceptual platform of Brodsky’s oeuvre, the film, arguably, stretches the limits of biographical discourse into the broader areas encompassing such themes as generational issues, the reflective and reproductive power of memory, familial bonds, and existential choices.
