Join facilitator José Alaniz for an audience-fueled exploration of Sergei Eisenstein's staggering masterpiece which revolutionized the language of cinema.
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Special Engagement
Saturday, November 17, 2018
SIFF Film Center
11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
$20 | $15 (SIFF Members) | $19 (Seniors and Youth)
SIFF Cinema passes, vouchers, and other discounts not accepted.
Note: Participants are recommended to have seen Battleship Potemkin in advance of the session. We will not be screening the film in its entirety before the dissection begins.
FACILITATOR
José Alaniz, associate professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Department of Comparative Literature (adjunct) at the University of Washington, Seattle, has published two books, Komiks: Comic Art in Russia (University Press of Mississippi, 2010) and Death, Disability and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond (UPM, 2014). His articles have appeared in the International Journal of Comic Art, The Comics Journal, Ulbandus, Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema, The Slavic and East European Journal, Comics Forum and Kinokultura, and the anthologies Disability in Comic Books and Graphic Narratives (2016), The Ages of The Avengers: Essays on the Earth's Mightiest Heroes in Changing Times (McFarland, 2014) and Russian Children's Literature and Culture (Routledge, 2007). From 2011-2017 he served as Chair of the Executive Committee of the International Comic Arts Forum (ICAF), the leading comics studies conference in the US. In 2014 he assumed the directorship of the University of Washington's Disability Studies Program. His research interests include Death and Dying, Disability Studies, Film Studies, Eco-criticism and Comics Studies. His current book projects include Resurrection: Comics in Post-Soviet Russia and a history of Czech graphic narrative.
ABOUT CINEMA DISSECTION
Cinema Dissection affords film lovers an exciting opportunity to dig deeper into the films that they love. Inspired by Roger Ebert's annual Cinema Interruptus in Boulder, CO, attendees will participate with a facilitator in a six-hour scene-by-scene, and sometimes shot-by-shot, deconstruction of the featured film. While the facilitator will certainly share their thoughts, anyone in the audience may call out "Stop" and either ask a question of the group or make an observation around a certain shot or moment in the film.
