Afterimage: Sergei Loznitsa

February 22–24, 2017

Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa joins us to present and discuss his work, including the award-winning Maidan and his latest, Austerlitz.

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  • Austerlitz

  • Maidan. Courtesy Cinema Guild

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Past Films

  • Blockade

    Sergei Loznitsa
    Russia, Ukraine, 2005
    Wednesday, February 22 7 PM
    Sergei Loznitsa and Neil Young in conversation

    Loznitsa reinterprets archival footage of the siege of Leningrad during World War II in this, “one of the most important Russian movies of the last decade” (Russian Review). With short The Old Jewish Cemetery.

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  • Three Short Films By Sergei Loznitsa

    Thursday, February 23 3:10 PM
    Sergei Loznitsa and Neil Young in conversation

    Witness contemporary Russia in these three shorts, from the rural village of Life, Autumn to Factory’s busy industrial floor and the tired commuters of Landscape.

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  • Austerlitz

    Sergei Loznitsa
    Germany, 2016

    Bay Area Premiere

    Thursday, February 23 7:30 PM
    Sergei Loznitsa and Neil Young in conversation

    Tourists wander amid a former concentration camp turned profit center in Loznitsa’s memorable investigation of the atrocity exhibition industry. “Brilliant” (Variety).

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  • Maidan

    Sergei Loznitsa
    Ukraine/Netherlands, 2014
    Friday, February 24 3:10 PM
    Sergei Loznitsa and Neil Young in conversation

    Composed from extended fixed shots, this account of Kiev’s Maidan Square protests tracks the trajectory from peaceful dissent to violent confrontation. “A film of scale and immediacy, finding artistry in bearing witness” (New York Times).

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  • In the Fog

    Sergei Loznitsa
    Germany, Latvia, Russia, Netherlands, Belarus, 2012
    Friday, February 24 7:30 PM
    Sergei Loznitsa and Neil Young in conversation

    Two partisans plan to kill a Belarusian railway worker suspected of Nazi sympathies in Loznitsa’s dreamlike narrative film. “A masterpiece” (David Thomson).

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