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.

SSEES Russian Cinema Research Group Members

Day/Time: Mondays, 18:00 - 19:30
Venue: Currently RCRG events are held via Zoom

Upcoming Events

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

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

Recent Events

2018/2019 Program

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
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

Spring Term 2017 Program

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

Autumn 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)

2019/2020 Program