Please join the Columbia School of the Arts, the Film and Media Studies Program, the Harriman Institute, the Department of Slavic Languages, the Dean of Humanities, the Department of English and Comparative Media, and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society for a screening of “Dni zatmeniya/Days of Eclipse” (Aleksandr Sokurov, Russia, 1988) 139 min.
This late Soviet-era science fiction traces medical school graduate Malyanov sent to work in Turkmenia. There he encounters victims of the government’s plan to relocate multiple ethnic groups. One wonders if in this bleak futurity there are premonitions of our contemporary situation.
Columbia University Film and Media Studies Memorial to Fredric Jameson honors his work on the science fiction genre in film and literature. Screening one of his favorite films returns us to his lesson: how to read the politics of our historical moment in the products of mass culture.
