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Capturing the Marvelous: Ukrainian Poetic Cinema
September 07, 2012 – September 12, 2012
Beginning in the late 19th century, a kind of “folk modernism” developed in the Ukraine that combined traditional themes and images with often far-reaching aesthetic innovation, as seen in the work of artists such as Sholem Aleichem and Marc Chagall and, in cinema, the work of Aleksandr Dovzhenko, the “father” of Ukrainian cinema. With the coming of the cultural thaw in the late 1950s and early ‘60s, a new generation of Ukrainian filmmakers returned to the spirit of “folk modernism,” resulting in some of the most remarkable looking and sounding films ever made. Read more »
