{"id":6135,"date":"2012-09-05T12:43:17","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T17:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=6135"},"modified":"2021-06-10T10:04:28","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T15:04:28","slug":"ukrainian-poetic-cinema-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2012\/09\/05\/ukrainian-poetic-cinema-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian Poetic Cinema series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmlinc.com\/films\/series\/ukrainian-poetic-cinema\">These<\/a> are some of my favorite films of all time. &#8220;Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors&#8221; was groundbreaking and the 3 Illienko films rarely get shown anywhere. (&#8220;Eve of Ivan Kupalo&#8221; is one of the wildest rides on celluloid.)<\/p>\n<p>See them on the big screen &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmlinc.com\/films\/series\/ukrainian-poetic-cinema\">at the Lincoln Center<\/a> this coming week &#8212; if you&#8217;re in the New York City area.<\/p>\n<p>James Steffen has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesmsteffen.net\/2012\/08\/ukrainian-poetic-cinema-at-the-lincoln-center\/\">useful write-up<\/a> on the series. And see my <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/06\/18\/white-bird-with-a-black-mark-flies\/\">obit<\/a> for Illienko here, with a couple of clips. I promised there that I would try to make available an old article in which I analyze three of Illienko&#8217;s films &#8212; all of which are showing at the Lincoln Center. I will do that shortly.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are some of my favorite films of all time. &#8220;Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors&#8221; was groundbreaking and the 3 Illienko films rarely get shown anywhere. (&#8220;Eve of Ivan Kupalo&#8221; is one of the wildest rides on celluloid.) See them on the big screen &#8212; at the Lincoln Center this coming week &#8212; if you&#8217;re in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[688745,689354],"tags":[556],"class_list":["post-6135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema_zone","category-image_nation","tag-ukrainian-poetic-cinema"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IC4a-1AX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1295,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/06\/18\/white-bird-with-a-black-mark-flies\/","url_meta":{"origin":6135,"position":0},"title":"white bird (with a black mark) flies","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"June 18, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6uwm5L48r4g&hl=en_US&fs=1& Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1964) Film director Yuri Ilyenko, one of the outstanding cinematographers and directors of the short-lived but significant Ukrainian New Wave, has passed away at age 74. 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The first of the two ride films below, the Lumiere brothers' rickshaw film from an Indochinese village, is beautiful (watch it in full screen with the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Cinema&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Cinema","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/category\/cinema_zone\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/C5XlKaii0OE\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1338,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/09\/11\/psychogeographic-landscape-cinema\/","url_meta":{"origin":6135,"position":3},"title":"psychogeographic landscape cinema","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"September 11, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Andrew Ray over at Some Landscapes has been posting about experimental landscape films, including Chris Welsby's Wind Vane, Tree, and other \"landscape-generated landscape films\"; Sarah Turner's Perestroika; the \"Land Art for the landless\" films\/performances of Francis Al\u00ffs; and others. 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