Antologion
Directed by: Aleksandr Balagura
Antologion – in ancient Greek: “crown of flowers, harvest of poetic passages…” Antologion is an assemblage film – an attempt to imagine a unique film with its own plot, its own aesthetics, its own intonation, an attempt to create a unique organic interweaving, a cine-rhapsody, basing it on fragments of classic films produced in Ukraine during the Soviet period. This film is a tribute to the centenary of cinematography.
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Screenings
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Friday 18 April 202519:30Venue : The Jérôme-Seydoux–Pathé FoundationAddress : 73 Avenue des Gobelins, 75013 Paris€7.00: Full price
€5.50: Student, Senior (+65 years), Unemployed
€5.50: Persons with disabilities
€4.50: Youth (-14 years)
€4.00: Partner price: Pathé CinéPass, La Cinémathèque Française Libre Pass
Free: Festival Pass
Press
“The relationship between poetry and memory is explored through the archive. The interplay between memory and its reconstruction, references to the fragility and durability of archive images, the regional identification of Ukrainian cinema, and poetic experimentation—all characterize Balagura’s film. The poetic images all seem to question the same myth, “the myth of the lost paradise,” and the need to sacrifice it. This sacrifice of a lost paradise, the paradise depicted in the mythical images of Ukrainian cinema, far from totalitarianism, is perhaps brought to life by the making of this film. The film sacrifices and resurrects images so that the viewer can reconstruct Ukrainian identity and their own version of national memory.”
Anna Doyle, « Poetry and Cinematic Memory », eefb.org
Credits
- Aleksandr Balagura Director(s)
