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Event Date as Display String:

Monday, May 20, 2019, 7:00pm - 9:20pm

Location:

Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge

URL:

https://library.harvard.edu/film/films/2019marmay/romanian.html#i

Event Description:

Gazette Classification: Film Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Film
Archive Cost: $9 - Regular Admission $7 - Non-Harvard Students,
Harvard Faculty and Staff, and Senior Citizens. Free for Harvard
students Contact Info: bgravely@fas.harvard.edu Link:
https://library.harvard.edu/film/films/2019marmay/romanian.html#i
"These words," explains Radu Jude, "spoken in the Council of Ministers
of the summer of 1941, started the ethnic cleansing on the Eastern
Front. The film is an answer to that phrase." In examining Romania's
collusion with Nazi Germany and that union's subsequent erasure from
national memory, Jude breaks all kinds of cinematic etiquette in his
provocatively playful dissection of history and its representation.
The first thing to go is the fourth wall when Ioana Iacob introduces
herself as Mariana Marin (not coincidentally sharing a name with the
radical Romanian poet silenced under Ceauşescu), the director of a
city-sponsored, public reenactment of the bloody Odessa Massacre in
which thousands of Ukranian Jews were killed by both German and
Romanian troops. Mariana's own dictatorial bent and artistic vision
are increasingly challenged by her ideologically diverse mix of
volunteer players and even the open-minded city official trying to
soften the edges of her audacious attempt at societal vivisection.
Incorporating incriminating archival footage and photographs with
extended dialogue sequences of intellectual exposition, and even the
complex power dynamics within Mariana's personal life, Jude's film is
not only interrogating Romania, it is investigating inherent problems
with the creation and reception of political art even as his own
unfolds.

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Monday, May 20, 2019 - 19:00 to 21:20

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