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    Brief Encounters

    Kira Muratova 1967 USSR Fiction b/w 96min Russian DCP
    Shelved for 20 years by Soviet censors, this film showcased Muratova's early forays into radical camerawork, remarkable use of non-linear narratives and audio discontinuities. The film depicts a love triangle between a provincial bureaucrat (played by Muratova), a wandering geologist (iconic musician and actor Vladimir Vysotsky) and a naive country girl. Capturing the gentle banality and ennui of our lives, the film makes sharp jabs at gender and sexual politics.

    Director

    Kira Muratova

    Kira Muratova (1934–2018), one of the most significant and original voices of Soviet and Ukrainian cinema, has been remembered as a fearless filmmaker who dares to poke at open wounds of history and humanity. Of all the (post-)Soviet auteurs, Kira Muratova was arguably the most variable, controversial and sardonic. Right from the start of Muratova’s career as a director in 1961, she was an irritant to the regime. Her idiosyncratic films, frequently featuring unconventional women protagonists, transgressive theatricality, and inventive formal experiment, were severely censored and suppressed during the Soviet era, yet drew belated recognition during perestroika and after as political tides shifted. Later often hailed as the master of absurdism, Muratova excels at turning the vulgar into poetry, using waste as a decorative ornament, integrating the criminal into the everyday, and thereby providing an authentically radical view of human condition. Until her passing in 2018, she has made 22 films over the course of six decades.


    Kira Muratova

    1967 Brief Encounters

    1971 The Long Farewell

    1978 Getting to Know the Big, Wide World

    1983 Among Grey Stones

    1987 Change of Fate

    1989 The Asthenic Syndrome

    1992 The Sentimental Policeman

    1994 Passions

    1997 Three Stories

    2001 Minor People

    2002 Chekhov’s Motifs

    2004 The Tuner

    2007 Two in One

    2009 Melody for a Street-organ

    2012 Eternal Homecoming

    Director: Kira Muratova

    Scriptwriter: Leonid Zhukhovistkiy, Kira Muratova

    Cast Nina Ruslanova, Vladimir Vysotskiy, Kira Muratova, Lidiia Bazylska, Olga Viklandt, Aleksei Glazyrin

    Cinematographer: Hennadii Kariuk

    Editor: Olga Charkova

    Music: Oleg Karavaychuk

    Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre

    o.prokopenko@dovzhenkocentre.org

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