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    Eternal Homecoming

    Kira Muratova 2012 Ukraine Fiction b/w & color 114min Russian DCP
    date time venue guests rating
    10/18 12:20 Spot Huasan A One P
    10/20 10:30 Spot Huasan A One P
    10/22 10:30 Spot Huasan A One P
    ★ 2013 International Film Festival Rotterdam

    A woman receives a surprise visit by a long-forgotten classmate who seeks her advice. Muratova invited her favorite collaborators to work with her on this project. She even inserted herself into the film's metafictional epilogue in color. The results of this aesthetic exercise in repetition are both philosophical and poignant.

    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, Scriptwriter: Kira Muratova

    Producer: Oleg Kokhan

    Cinematographer: Volodymyr Pankov

    Editor: Valentyna Oliinyk

    Production Design: Yevhen Golubenko, Oleg Khvastov

    Sound Design: Oleksandr Schepotin

    Music: Valentyn Silvestrov

    Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre

    o.prokopenko@dovzhenkocentre.org

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