Russian Cinema Research Group

SSEES's Russian Cinema Research Group was founded in the autumn of 2002.

The Russian Cinema Research Group draws upon the holdings of the UCL SSEES Video and DVD collection and on the expertise of staff working on Russian film in SSEES, UCL and other British universities.

The research group holds regular work in progress seminars and welcomes visiting scholars working in the field. It has hosted over 100 speakers, from the UK, Russia, the USA, Kazakhstan, France, Germany, Spain, Australia, Hungary, Norway and Ukraine.

Day/Time: Mondays, 18:00 - 19:30
Venue: Masaryk room/Zoom

Upcoming events

09 October 2023

Biopolitics and Cinemas of the Body

Event Videos

Recent Events

Spring Term 2023

06 February 2023	(Re)discovering Ukrainianness
20 February 2023	Fridrikh Ermler’s Balzac in Russia: an eccentric chapter of Soviet film history
6 March 2023	Ornament as National Form in Late Eisenstein

Autumn Term 2022

24 October 2022	K/INOSTRANTSY: Towards a New History of the Early Cinema in the Empire of All the Russias
05 December 2022	Decolonizing Film History: Ukrainian Contexts for the Decadent Cinema of the Russian Empire
12 December 2022	Ecstasy and Abstraction: Sergei Eisenstein’s Quest for Pathos and Emile Zola’s Naturalist Prose

Spring Term 2022

30 May 2022	Two Absent Funerals: Ukrainian Poetic Cinema of the 1960s
16 May 2022	Cinematic Depopulation as a Variety of Cultural Imperialism
24 February 2022	Pathography: Renata Litvinova’s narratives of illness

Autumn Term 2021

13 December 2021	A conversation with Catriona Kelly
15 November 2021	Digital Restoration and Colour Grading – Implications for Film Studies with Daniel Bird

Spring Term 2021

Spring 2021
25 January 2021, 6:00 pm–7:30 pm	Heterotopia DAU: Cinema, Crisis and Isolated Spaces With Alexandre Zaezjev (University of Geneva, Switzerland) and Mark Lipovetsky (Columbia University, New York, USA)
01 February 2021, 6:00 pm–7:30 pm	Women of Tomorrow? Female Film Professionals in Pre-revolutionary Russia With Dr Anna Kovalova
10 May 2021, 5:30pm	Feeling Revolution: Cinema, Genre and the Politics of Affect under Stalin With Dr Anna Toropova

Autumn Term 2020

02 November 2020, 6:00 pm–7:30 pm	Translating ‘Queer Theory’ into Russian Misha Yakovlev (University of Warwick)
07 December 2020, 6:00 pm–7:30 pm	DAU: Excess, Hysteria, Destruction Roundtable discussion of Ilya Khrzhanovskiy’s DAU project with Birgit Beumers (Aberystwyth), Philip Cavendish (UCL SSEES), Natascha Drubek-Meyer (Berlin), Michał Murawski (UCL SSEES) and Eugénie Zvonkine (Paris VIII). Moderated by Rachel Morley (UCL SSEES)

Spring Term 2020

6:00 pm to 8:00 pm 3 February

The Adventures of Classical Film Plotting in the Land of the Bolsheviks Maria Belodubrovskaya (University of Chicago)

Autumn Term 2019

6:00 pm to 8:00 pm 11 November	Who Are the Russians in the Documentaries? Analysing the Everyday in Russian TV Documentary Films  Anastasia Kriachko Roeren (University of Oslo)
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm 9 December	From Editor to Director: Esfir Shub’s Compilation Trilogy Through the Lens of Its Contemporary Reception Anastasia Kostina (Yale University)

Spring Term 2019

18 February 2019, 6 - 8pm, Room 347	Nathan Brand - Promising a better yesterday? Conservative Readings of Russian Auteur Blockbusters
18 March 2019, 6 - 8pm, Room 347	Adelaide McGinity-Peebles - ‘You’re not supposed to like us, you’re supposed to fear us’: Recent cinematic representations of the state in the provincial Russian town

Autumn Term 2018

15 October 2018, 6 - 8pm, Room 347	Sergei Kachkin -  Being Independent in Russian Filmmaking
10 December 2018, 6 - 8pm, Room 347	Serian Carlyle - The Labours of Mother Russia: Pregnancy in Russian and Soviet Cinema

Spring Term 2018

19 February 2018, 6-8pm, Room 433	Samuel Goff Girls on the run: gender, emotion and spectatorship in 1930s fizkul'tura film
19 March 2018, 6-8pm, Room 433	Natasha Poljakowa (Brandenburgisches Zentrum für Medienwissenschaften) From Censorship to Exhibition: German Films and the Ideological Control over Foreign Film Repertoire in the Soviet Union during the 1920s
23 April 2018, 6-8pm, Room 433	Alex Graham (UCL SSEES) Gennadii Shpalikov and the Cinema of Impossibility: Auteurism, Cinephilia and Politics from VGIK to Lenfil'm

Autumn Term 2017

16 Oct 2017, 6-8pm Room 433	Screening Soviet Nationalities - talk by Dr Oksana Sarkisova
17 Nov 2017, 5-7pm Room 433	Stanislav Menzelevskyi (Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre, Kyiv) VUFKU: Lost and Found. The Forgotten History of Ukrainian Avant-garde Cinema in the 1920s and 1930s
20 Nov 202016-1717, 6-8pm Room 433	Eleanor Rees (UCL SSEES) Authenticity and Set Design in Early Russian and Soviet Fiction Film

Past Events

View past events including titles, summaries, speakers and podcasts.

rcrg_historic_events.pdf

rcrg_historic_events.pdf