{"id":481,"date":"2008-04-03T16:35:12","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T22:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=481"},"modified":"2025-01-10T08:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T14:24:08","slug":"falling-out-of-time-new-documentaries-from-the-former-soviet-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2008\/04\/03\/falling-out-of-time-new-documentaries-from-the-former-soviet-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Falling Out of Time: New Documentaries from the Former Soviet Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><strong>Thursday, April 3, 6pm<\/strong> | <\/span><span><em>Curators Oona Mosna and Jeremy Rigsby in person!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<address>\n<dl>\n<dt><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2009\/05\/wayfarer450.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1874\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2009\/05\/wayfarer450.jpg\" alt=\"Igor Strembitsky, Wayfarers (2005). Image courtesy of the artist.\" width=\"450\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd>Igor Strembitsky, Wayfarers (2005). Image courtesy of the artist.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/address>\n<p>Once the home of state-sponsored social realism, the former Soviet Europe has given rise to a new breed of documentary, revising its realist tradition with the observational ambiguities and formal rigor more familiar to experimental cinema. Often produced at historic documentary studios, these films focus on the once-valorized &#8220;common man\u201d\u2014the industrial and rural working class\u2014now abandoned in the region\u2019s ongoing economic and cultural transformation. Taken together, they provide a portrait of an area \u201creturning to Europe\u201d and a people \u201cfalling out of time.\u201d Curated by Oona Mosna and Jeremy Rigsby, directors of Windsor\u2019s annual film and video art festival, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.houseoftoast.ca\/mediacity\/Home.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Media City<\/a>, the program includes Igor Strembitsky\u2019s 2005 Cannes-winning Ukrainian film<em> Wayfarers<\/em><span>; acclaimed Russian director Sergei Loznitsa\u2019s haunting<em> Halt<\/em><\/span><span> (2000); Victor Asliuk\u2019s<em> The Mine<\/em><\/span><span> (2004, Belarus); and Oksana Buraja\u2019s<em> Mother<\/em><span> (2001, Lithuania), among others. Multiple formats.<\/span> 2000\u20132007, various directors, various countries, ca. 90 min, various formats. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>More<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikehoolboom.com\/r2\/artist.php?artist=68\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mike Hoolboom on Victor Asliuk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.festival-cannes.com\/en\/article\/43261.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Wayfarers<\/em> at Cannes<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, April 3, 6pm | Curators Oona Mosna and Jeremy Rigsby in person! Igor Strembitsky, Wayfarers (2005). Image courtesy of the artist. Once the home of state-sponsored social realism, the former Soviet Europe has given rise to a new breed of documentary, revising its realist tradition with the observational ambiguities and formal rigor more familiar [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2008\/04\/03\/falling-out-of-time-new-documentaries-from-the-former-soviet-europe\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Falling Out of Time: New Documentaries from the Former Soviet Europe<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":1874,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[108,152,206,211,250],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-13","tag-canada","tag-curators-and-programmers","tag-europe","tag-experimental","tag-group-programs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","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=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8746,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions\/8746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}