The Moving Image Source Calendar is a selective international guide to retrospectives, screenings, festivals, and exhibitions.
Descriptions are drawn from the calendars of the presenting venues.
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Andrei Ujică
October 7–9, 2011 at
Museum of the Moving Image
, New York
The remarkable three-hour film The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu, by the exiled Romanian filmmaker Andrei Ujică, is a fascinating, multilayered essay in the form of a collage of official newsreels and home movies. It established Ujică on the international scene as a major director with a unique approach to exploring recent history. While his films incisively reveal the contradictions and tensions behind the curtain of Soviet-era Communism, they also examine the nature of reality and politics in today's media-saturated Western world. This weekend program includes all three of Ujică's films to date, plus a panel discussion that will look at his work from the perspectives of history, literature, and cinema. Presented in collaboration with the Romanian Cultural Institute, New York.
Featured Works:
Videograms of a Revolution (Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujică, 1992); Out of the Present (Andrei Ujică, 1999); The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (Andrei Ujică, 2010, pictured)
Program information:
Harvard Film Archive
October 7 - October 9, 2011
Related Articles:
How Was Ceausescu Possible? by Vladimir Tismaneanu posted Sep. 29, 2011
History Will Be Televised by Leo Goldsmith posted Sep. 29, 2011
