Retrospectives

Retrospectives
Reflections on stand-out films of the past.

Motivic Merrymaking in the Musical Films of Grigori Aleksandrov and Ivan Pyryev

Wolfgang Thiel retraces the development of the Soviet musical.

Oliver Banatvala addresses the iconoclastic tendencies of this short cinematic collage.

In the 1980s, Boris Yukhananov launched a series of VHS films that introduces his concept of "fatal editing".

Emily Nill emphasizes the critical potential of the Aleynikovs' engagement with the avant-garde.

Gordei Petrik returns to one of only two films of Parallel Cinema to be produced at the central Soviet studios.

Bohdan Shumylovych revisits the emergence of video art in Lviv in 1993.

Ianina Prudenko recounts the emergence of a Ukrainian Video Art scene.

Anna Doyle revisits Balagura's Antologion on the occasion of our special issue on Ukrainian video art.

Julia Weir revisits this Polish cult film and the story behind its unlikely release.

Isaac W. R. Miller revisits Soviet Colonial ideology through a reading of this 1970 classic.