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Thu24 Jul05:15pm(15 mins)
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Where:
Room 17
Presenter:
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By showcasing Ivan Kavaleridze’s experimental debut film Downpour, made for Vufku in 1929, I am curious to explore the (dis)connections between his constructivist sculpture and slow cinema in Ukrainian culture of the late 1920s. While a well-recognized avant-garde fascination with speed, movement, and machines was epitomized in the cinematic medium, I am mainly interested in the lack of dynamism and acceleration of Kavaleridze’s pictures, in slow cinema amidst the hegemony of urban modernity. The question is not so much kinetic and not so much aesthetic, but also political.
