{"id":1182,"date":"2008-02-28T20:34:42","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T02:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2025-01-10T08:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T14:25:08","slug":"prisoners-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2008\/02\/28\/prisoners-of-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Prisoners of War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<strong>Thursday, February 28, 8pm <\/strong>| <em>Yervant Gianikian &amp; Angela Ricci Lucchi in person!<\/em><\/p>\n<address>\n<dl>\n<dt><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2009\/09\/Prisoners-of-War450.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2965\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2009\/09\/Prisoners-of-War450.jpg\" alt=\"Yervant Gianikian &amp; Angela Ricci Lucchi, Prisoners of War (1995). Image courtesy of the artists.\" width=\"450\" height=\"345\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd>Yervant Gianikian &amp; Angela Ricci Lucchi, Prisoners of War (1995). Image courtesy of the artists.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/address>\n<p>Milan-based filmmakers Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi are renowned for their haunting archival films. Assembled from rare early 20th-century footage, the duo slow down and hand-tint the original film to emphasize the fleeting expressions and gestures from a time long since passed. In the mid-90s, the couple began an extraordinary trilogy on World War I, beginning with <em>Prisoners of War.<\/em> Comprised of military footage shot by cameramen in Czarist Russia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire (much of it for propaganda purposes), the film centers on the ordeals of fallen soldiers, child POWs, and civilian refugees. \u201cOne of the last scenes depicting a mass grave,\u201d writes curator Kathy Geritz, \u201cis a troubling reminder that the beginning of the century does not look so different from its closing.\u201d Presented with the assistance of Northwestern University&#8217;s Department of French and Italian in conjunction with the symposium, Archives of Cinema \/ Memories of War. 1995, Yervant Gianikian &amp; Angela Ricci Lucchi, Italy, 67 min, 16mm.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, February 28, 8pm | Yervant Gianikian &amp; Angela Ricci Lucchi in person! Yervant Gianikian &amp; Angela Ricci Lucchi, Prisoners of War (1995). Image courtesy of the artists. Milan-based filmmakers Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi are renowned for their haunting archival films. Assembled from rare early 20th-century footage, the duo slow down and hand-tint [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2008\/02\/28\/prisoners-of-war\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Prisoners of War<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":2965,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[206,423,450,476],"class_list":["post-1182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-13","tag-europe","tag-monographic-shows","tag-non-fiction","tag-political"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8750,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions\/8750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}