© Macha Ovtchinnikova, My Russian 90’s: Chroniques d’une décennie (2022)
Macha Ovtchinnikova
My Russian 90’s: Chroniques d’une décennie
On February 15, 2024 at 7 pm
— Facebook event
Discover My Russian 90’s: Chroniques d’une décennie [Chronicles of a Decade], a personal and moving documentary by Macha Ovtchinnikova presented in collaboration with Dazibao and Vidéographe as part of the dv_vd series. The film follows the director and her mother on a trip to Russia in 2003, tracing the conditions that precipitated their emigration. Starting out as a private exploration, it ultimately reveals the reality of Moscow women after the 1991 putsch and offers a feminist perspective on this politically tumultuous period.
Rémy Besson will deliver a presentation preceding the screening of the film.
“I return with my mother in Russia to reminisce together about the decade following the 1991 Moscow putsch. Painful memories for her and happy for me.”
Duration: 1 h 41 min.
Macha Ovtchinnikova is a French filmmaker and researcher of Russian origin. With a PhD in cinematic studies, she writes about cinema and contemporary art and teaches the practice and aesthetics of cinema and video art at university level. Her works include Les Variations (2014), a feature-length fiction film, Défaite et victoire du corps (2018), a documentary, and Stigmates de la terre (2020). Produced by Les Docs du Nord, My Russian 90’s: Chroniques d'une décennie is her most recent film.
A lecturer at Université de Montréal and editorial director of the Encyclopedia of Film Techniques and Technologies (Laboratoire CinéMédias), Rémy Besson completed a doctorate in history at EHESS (Paris), focusing on the narration of Claude Lanzmann's film Shoah. Specializing in the study of the relationship between the past, the humanities and documentary cinema in the digital age, he has for many years run the Cinémadoc research notebook. Cinemadoc.hypotheses.org
Dazibao thanks the artist and Vidéographe for their generous collaboration as well as its advisory committee for their support.
Dazibao receives financial support from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts de Montréal, the ministère de la Culture et des Communications and the Ville de Montréal.
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